12-31-2020, 01:34 AM
It happened so fast. She had realized the tide's rising with the moon as the sun set, but it was already too late. Night was filled with moonlit terror, the strange Spino walking out of the water, their scales set alight with the moon. Her parents already gone, the subadult cowering as the ghostly beast approached. 'Leave, girl. Leave, and never return, or your parents' fate will be yours.' They didn't have to say it twice. She leapt into the water and swam. Fled. She was forever a coward.
She swam for what seemed as months, even though it was only a few days before she found herself approaching another island. Or.. A cluster of islands. An Archipelago. She felt her feet touch sands and she stood in the water, watching the animals working on the shores. Something had hit them, and hard. It didn't seem like a storm, either. Something sentient. Her body shuddered. Slowly did she approach the shore, growing more and more uncomfortable as more and more eyes settled on her. She slowed to a stop, her body above the water, claws working their way into the sand.
She backed up until her belly touched the water and she started to pace. Why did they have to look? The ocean had to have given them many stranger things. So why did they keep staring? Couldn't they just mind their own business? Well, it was explainable. She did just wander up to their shores. But still! Maybe if someone called out and asked her to get onto the beach, maybe she'd feel comfortable enough to come up.
"Speech"
She swam for what seemed as months, even though it was only a few days before she found herself approaching another island. Or.. A cluster of islands. An Archipelago. She felt her feet touch sands and she stood in the water, watching the animals working on the shores. Something had hit them, and hard. It didn't seem like a storm, either. Something sentient. Her body shuddered. Slowly did she approach the shore, growing more and more uncomfortable as more and more eyes settled on her. She slowed to a stop, her body above the water, claws working their way into the sand.
She backed up until her belly touched the water and she started to pace. Why did they have to look? The ocean had to have given them many stranger things. So why did they keep staring? Couldn't they just mind their own business? Well, it was explainable. She did just wander up to their shores. But still! Maybe if someone called out and asked her to get onto the beach, maybe she'd feel comfortable enough to come up.
"Speech"
" THEY NEVER HAD IT LIKE ME, LIKE ME / THEY NEVER REALLY LIKED ME, LIKED ME! " ————————————————— ˊˎ˗