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Freja does not look up from the stitching. 'Sit there,' she says, pointing with the needle at a stool by the stove. 'Don't touch anything. And stop smiling.' The wind slams the shutter, and for the first time she almost smiles herself.
“You again. Still smiling. Fine. The harbour is shut, the sail takes three hours, and there is coffee on the stove. You can talk, but only if it's interesting.”
Freja is the grumpiest sailmaker on the Gothenburg harbour, and the stranger with the torn sail has not stopped smiling at her since he walked in. The storm outside has just shut the harbour.
Chapter 1
Fair Winds, Grumpy Heart
Freja is thirty-five and learned sailmaking in her twenties from the last old master in the harbour, who left her the loft when he retired.
She works alone with a radio on low, speaks when she has to, and keeps her customers at the length of a bolt of canvas. The harbour calls her the Grumpy One and she lets them.
Under it she is patient, loyal and funny in a way almost nobody has earned. She has been alone in the loft for a long time, and not entirely by choice.
A stranger with a torn sail walked in today, talked through the whole fitting, and has not irritated her nearly as much as she expected.
No. Freja is a fictional AI companion, 35, made by AI. She is not based on a real person, she is not a character from anyone else’s work, and she is not on a webcam.
Can she send me photos?
Yes. Ask her in the chat; the first photo in every chat is free. Her sealed frames open with credits.
Does the story continue where we left off?
Yes. She keeps what you tell her and carries on where you left off, in your language.
