The water here wasn't so bad. From what Ember knew about the oceans, they were slightly warmer in the winter time and cooler in the summer. They followed the patterns of the lands next to them, but had a lag to them; they were behind, a bit. She slapped the water with her hand, waiting. This was the place that she normally met her friend Utriu, but sometimes he wasn't around. Slapping the water was their signal. She would sit at the log by the water's edge and slap it for an hour, sometimes, before he would come.
Luckily, she already had a fire going. It was mid-morning, and the sun made the bay sparkle like a thousand tiny diamonds. Each time she slapped it the nearest glimmers went away for a little while, coming back as the water resettled.
It was clear out, with no snow or rain, and she could see the giant beast approach from the depths very easily from where she sat. She wasn't sure what it was about this animal that she liked so much, or what he liked about her, but she'd been seeing him ever since she'd come to AniWaya. Sometimes she would come and spend all day along the coast, searching for treasure or going out into the water. What she really wanted was a floating device, one with paddles. Then she could really hang out with him. She had to stick to the areas of the coast where the waters were the deepest so that he could come up to her.
"Utriu!" She called, waving out to him. His eyes were very small...but she knew that he could see her. His swimming sped up, and soon his large black and white body was bobbing up and down in front of her. It was his way of greeting, she supposed, bobbing his head in and out of the water. The shifted wolf reached down, running her fingers over the slippery skin of the whale. "How are you today? Ya look good. Didn't get into any fights? Me either." He didn't answer, not really, but she pretended that he understood her. He always seemed to.
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