There is no doubt that this tune was composed by the clerk/writer. As with many other tunes that we’e found in the Chartagonian world, it has the rhytm of a slow waltz. From the documents that we’ve recovered from the Clerks chest, we’ve learned that the Clerk came to the Storm Island shortly after the Contructor had left the island, and before the Light House Keeper and his daughter arrived. The Poet wrecked her small boat during a stormy September night, but refused to stay inside the light house. Instead, she made a tree house and stayed there until her restlessness brought her to another adventure. The Clerk’s drawing of the Storm Island is from the same year in October, and according to his notes this tune was made at the same time.
The Clerk’s notes also say that distant fog horns was occasionally heard in the fog surrounding the island, and that shadows of passing boats and ships could sometimes be seen, always on the north side of the island. However, he could never see the shape of the ships, or learn from what time or culture they came from. The poet’s boat was an exception, as it came from the south. Apart from the Poet, the Clerk never saw any signs of other people on Storm Island, until he had to continue his journey and document the island of Solvågen (“Gomisver” in Chartagonian, which roughly translates to “where-the-sun-is-seen-through-the-waves).