· Utsjoki, Finland
The ferry rope.
From the journal of the Wolf of the North · a work of fiction
The small river ferry had stalled with the Koskinen family aboard. A reindeer on the landing rushed whenever the boat drifted close, and the current kept pulling them back toward it.
I swam a line across and hauled the ferry to the downstream bank. Everyone landed wet but upright. Their grandmother asked if wolves could swim; I told her this one could, provided the river was not any wider.