Tumbler Fletchwood

****H******enrik Fletchwood**, or **Tumbler**, was a member of Violet Cross's crew. He loved poems and was known for being very sweet.

## Biography

### *The Thief Knot*

*Of deeds great and small and a grand smuggler queen,*
*Of days we were heroes, of villains and hazards,*
*The rivers and oceans we sailed in between.*
*I'll tell you a tale of a place like a dream,*
*Where strange things await 'ronud each corner and bend,*
*Where streets with no names lead to journeys and perils*
*And miraculous sights down each shadowed dead end.*
*We voyaged here many a magical year*
*A shipful of heroes and our smuggler queen;*
*Now here we are, you and I, back all together*
*So I can share with you these places I've been.*
*But the best place to be and the tales I most treasure*
*In all my home seas from one 'Peake to the other*
*After years of adventures and exploits and wonders*

Honora told Marzana a story about a time when Violet Cross's crew had smuggled truffle-hunting pigs. She and Tumbler, Nick Larven, Nick Jones, and Nick Nackatory had gone up with the captain and seen the cargo, Tumbler saying psalms and poems for luck. The crew had gotten two of the pigs as a bonus, and Tumbler had named them Anthony and Francis, which was supposed to be a joke about ham that Honora had long forgotten. Moth and Christopher Fletchwood later came to Hedgelock Court to see Mrs. Hakelbarend, wanting to know about their father, who had died a few years ago at the age of sixty-eight. Tumbler had retired to a place on the Chesapeake near a Magothy River that reminded him of the Magothy Bay, and Moth and Christopher had grown up there. Mrs. Hakelbarend recalled when Tumbler and many other members of her crew had come back to Nagspeake, and Tumbler had written poems for his wife, which, according to Christopher, she still had. Honora confirmed that the crew all loved Tumbler. Mrs. Hakelbarend reminisced about how Tumbler loved literature and puzzles.

Marzana figured out that Moth and Christopher Fletchwood were the kidnappers of Peony Hyde. They had needed the Hydes out of their house sot hat they could get to Mergenthaler Street Station to open a locker, and Marzana presumed that the thing in the locker was from their father. Marzana knew that what was in the locker was not worth much money, because of who Tumbler had been and that he had chosen an easy-to-pick lock. In order to deter the Fletchwoods, J.J. and Meddy used a balloon to make it seem like the ghost of Tumbler Fletchwood had arrived. The balloon signaled toward the locker, where they found a message asking why they had taken a kid. The balloon eventually deflated.

After Moth and Christopher were marched away, Marzana realized that Tumbler had indeed left them something. She followed the locks on other lockers to reveal a poem and, eventually, lead her to a locker with two kites inside: the Windrose and the Portolan, which Tumbler had intended for them all to fly together after their adventure.

## Personality and traits

Tumbler was known for being very sweet. He loved poetry and literature, and also puzzles, including locks.

## Trivia

* Tumbler's nickname may come from the tumbler in a lock, since Tumbler loved locks and was good with them.