A/N:

I started this fic in early October and ended it late December. I wrote ~3k of this fic while on vacation in China, and 2/3 of that was written on my phone using Apple Notes, so if there are any rough parts, that's probably why! 

This fic is dedicated to my best friend, whose birthday was in mid-November but I couldn't finish it by then so I guess it'll just be a New Year's gift. She specifically requested the fic to take place in a fishing town and to be centered around a crab shack (I didn't even know what a "crab shack" was back then), and to use a writing style that combines Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen (which I recommend reading!) and the Chanbaek fic Children of the Storm by ink-and-stars (one of my fave chanbaek fics). Of course, I am not as talented as either of these authors, so by the end I deviated from their styles :(

This work is also inspired by In the Territory of the Dragon King, or at least the ending is. 

And with that, I hope you enjoy :)