Translated, it was a warning to the Claytons to refrain from reporting the loss of the revolvers, or from repeating what the old sailor had told them—to refrain on pain of death.

We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.

But she also describes being boatbound the whole time as constraining: […]

He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.