Black lettering reading accio adventure in a serif typeface runs along the inner forearm of a hand resting on a map of India.

Accio adventure lettering on a wrist over a map

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A hand rests on a printed map of India and Sri Lanka, with the inner wrist and forearm in sharp focus. The black ink lettering reads accio adventure in a typewriter-style serif, running up the forearm at a slight angle. The image is shot close up with a soft vignette, and the warm tones of the map contrast with the black ink.

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Dear Mags, the Dhanushkodi crossing has been cancelled for the third morning running, so I am writing this on the back of a guesthouse menu, perched on a plastic chair above a chai stall, while the sea does whatever it likes out past the breakwater. The man who runs the place says it is the wind. I say it is paperwork, and paperwork, unlike the wind, can be persuaded.

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This morning I tried the charm on the immigration clerk. I said it under my breath, the way you taught me on the back step when we were nine and wanted the cat to come in. Accio, stamp. Nothing happened. He looked at me as if I had sneezed on his register. Then he reached for the stamp himself, because the queue behind me was shuffling and he wanted it done, and I have decided that counts as a win.

The boat leaves at six tomorrow, if the boatman's cousin still wants the cash. I have the map open on the bed, the warm paper of India going soft at the edges from handling, and I have been tracing the gap to Sri Lanka with my finger for an hour, like a child who thinks the distance will shrink if she is patient enough.

Tell Dad the kettle is not his to guard any more. Tell the cat to wait. And if the crossing goes wrong, I will summon something better, probably a rickshaw. Love, Nell.

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