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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Storm's End'' (short story)}}{{Short Story
| title1= ''Storm's End''
| image1= Storm's End - Title.png
| caption1=
| other_titles=
| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Psychopomp)|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Death of the Endless (Psychopomp)|Death of the Endless]]
| villain(s)= 
| featuring= [[Hendrick Van der Decken]]
| setting= The ''[[Flying Dutchman]]'', [[Universe (Psychopomp)|unnamed universe]]
| crossovers = ''[[The Sandman (series)|The Sandman]]''
| length= 930 words
| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]]
| artist(s)=
| dates= June 16th, 2023<br><small>(release)</small>
| original_link= [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/54821.html]
| seriesnav = [[Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories]]
| previous = ''[[Dog Days of Sumer (short story)|Dog Days of Sumer]]''
| next= ''[[Bat Country (short story)|Bat Country]]''
}}'''''Storm's End''''' was a short [[Jenny Everywhere]] short story written by [[Scott Sanford]], serving as a direct sequel to [[Aristide Twain]]'s earlier, standalone [[PROSE]]: ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'', which had established that [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Psychopomp)|an incarnation]] of Jenny and [[Death of the Endless (Psychopomp)|a version]] of ''[[The Sandman (series)|The Sandman]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Death of the Endless]] were now travelling together.

== Contents ==
===Plot ===
Somewhere, [[Flying Dutchman|a ship]] that's been at sea for much too long is caught in a storm. The familiar event is interrupted, however, when two woman mysteriously appear on deck: one [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Psychopomp)|an Asian girl wearing a trousers and a preposterous scarf]], the other [[Death of the Endless (Psychopomp)|a chalk-white woman in a black dress]]. Strangely cheerful, they ask to speak to the Captain, who is none other than [[Hendrick Van der Decken]]. He does not remember the woman from her previous incursion onboard the ship, when “everyone was busy”, and is initially annoyed when she inquires about the specific wording of the vow he took all those centuries ago to “round the Cape if it took [him] until the Last Day”. However, the two soon explain that the pale woman has finally devised a way out of the vow: he didn't specify the end of ''which'' world would be the time-limit on his oath, and in the scope of [[the Multiverse]], there are worlds being created or destroyed every day. Thus, they suggest that he let Jenny take the wheel and steer the ''Dutchman'' into another universe which has already reached its end, which will free the cursed seamen from Van der Decken's vow and finally allow them to return to habour. 

===Worldbuilding===
====Jenny Everywhere====
* This story features [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Psychopomp)|the incarnation of Jenny]] previously seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]''. She appears as a woman wearing “sturdy trousers and a gaudily colorful scarf”, with the ''[[Flying Dutchman]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> crew thinking she has “the look of the East Indies lands that they’d once sworn to reach”.

====Universes====
* The story appears to take place in [[Universe (Psychopomp)|Death's native universe]] prior to its destruction, as Death alludes to having met Van der Decken before on the day he should have died.

====Other====
* The ''[[Flying Dutchman]]'' is described as a “three-master {{w|Fluyt|fluyt}}”.

=== Continuity ===
* This story follows on from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'', where [[Death of the Endless (Psychopomp)|a version of Death of the Endless]] agreed to travel [[the Multiverse]] with [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Psychopomp)|Jenny]].

== Behind the scenes ==
===Background===
When posting the story, [[Scott Sanford]] appended a foreword:
{{quotebox|1=Who could find one lost ship in the immensity of the seas? Who would want to find them? And even if they did, who could do anything about it?<br /><br />If you haven’t read ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'' by [[Aristide Twain]] yet, go read ''Psychopomp''.|2=Scott Sanford}}
And an afterword, after [[the Paragraph]]:
{{quotebox|1=You should recognize the other characters, too. You might not remember the name Hendrick Van der Decken, but you’ve heard of {{w|Flying Dutchman|his ship}}. And Jenny's pale friend? Yeah, she's got this. She's very good at endings.|2=Scott Sanford}}
The story was also prefaced with a few lines from {{w|Thomas Moore|Thomas Moore}}'s poem ''The Flying Dutchman'', and a black-and-white piece of preexisting official art of [[Death of the Endless]] was used to further clarify the pale woman's identity to readers who failed to read ''Psychopomp'', a piece originally drawn by Chris Bachalo for ''Death: The Time of Your Life'' #1 (1993).
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===Read online===
The story is available on [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/54821.html the author's Dreamwidth website]. 

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