One-Armed Scissor

From the introduction:

A library ship, The One-Armed Scissor, is a month overdue for docking at the spit of Three Masks.

It's probably nothing, the residents tell themselves. Ships are delayed all the time by the unknowns of the rustling waves. Except... There was that rootquake, a while back, that shifted the old established trade routes. And the reports from other sailors of marauders at large, and pinwolves on the rise. And a cache of recently delivered books, their leather bindings ruined and their words run rampant and whispering.

Perhaps there's reason to worry.

And, perhaps, an opportunity for an enterprising crew...