Toes In the Water, A$$ In the Sand

Leichi · 07-22-2012, 12:17 AM

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Word count: 547 Hey! Sorry if it's a little long, but I kinda got on a writing rampage. Just couldn't stop, ya know? Anyway, hope you like it Smile

The waves crashed down onto the shore as the luperci wondered whether to jump into one or not. He remembered taking a trip with his mother to a place like this once where he had played in the waves, but that was a long time ago. He plopped down in the sand, not sure what he wanted to do. Well, he knew what he wanted to do, he just didn’t know if it was safe or not. A moment ago he had stepped in a little ways and almost got whisked away by the powerful tides coming in. He sat there picking up sand and watching it fall out of his hand from pure boredom. He flinched when sharp talons landed on his head.

“What do you think I should do?” the wolf asked his friend. The hawk stared at him with a look in her eyes that meant only one thing.

“Water too strong. Get pulled. Stupid wolf,” she said, delivering a light peck to the side of his head.

Sighing in submission, Leichi looked up at the stars in the cloudless night sky. He had never remembered a time when he felt this at peace. He had nothing to worry about, just the sand in his toes and the cool, night, ocean breeze. The wolf shivered when spray from the ocean whipped up into the air and misted him. As the tide grew stronger from the pull of the moon, it lapped at his feet. Amused, Leichi playfully tapped at the water with his toes, enjoying the small “sploosh” sound it made.

“Ow! What the,” the young wolf cried out in pain when something extremely sharp hit the bottom of his foot.

He brought his foot up to him, studying where the pain had come from. There was a small shard of glass caught in his skin. Hesitantly, he took the glass in his fingers and quickly pulled it out. There was a split second of pain, but it quickly left him. Out of curiosity, Leichi sifted through the wet sand to see if he could find where the shard had come from. Where there more that he wasn’t aware of? His hand hit something hand and he grasped the skinnier part of it. Pulling the object out of the sand, he soon found a bottle in his hand.

There was a wet piece of paper inside of the broken bottle, only hanging on by a point where it had stabbed through the paper. He peeled the slip off of the glass but couldn’t make out the smudged words. There was an ‘m’ and then an ‘r’ and then a ‘y’. Moving on to the next word, there was an ‘m’ ‘e’ ‘?’. Compelled by what this piece of paper had once said, the wolf was disappointed he wasn’t able to learn more about what these words were supposed to spell out.

Feeling overwhelmed by tiredness, he fell back and landed with a small thud in the soft sand. Closing his eyes, Leichi let out a long sigh and relaxed as the water now lapped at his ankles, cooling him off under all of his thick fur. How he wished he could stay like this forever.

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