07-22-2009, 09:51 PM
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[/html]quartz shoreline :]. 365 words
Sofia had no real direction to her wandering, now. After a brief stint in Dahlia de Mai and a more extended exploration of the southern lands, she had turned and went back east. Which was weird, because for the past couple of months her entire life had been devoted to traveling west - to find the unexpectedly abandoned home of her father. And while she hadn't traveled at great speed, she had taken the most direct route. It didn't matter, though. She had already overshot her goal, the burnt lands to the east that were too-slowly being reborn. She'd never really get the chance to see them healthy again. All she was left with were the fond memories of the short time she had spent in Jaded Shadows as a tiny, tiny child.
But these lands were well-populated, and interesting to explore in-depth. And without a goal to drag her along, to take footstep after footstep after footstep until she no longer had any left to give, there was no reason not to stay. The sand was very smooth, and her sore paws sure appreciated it. To think, that their pads had still possessed some vestiges of puppy-pink before she set out! Okay, that was particularly her forelimbs and that was directly a result of living life predominantly shifted, but the point still remained: she had traveled enough since then to gray them a dozen times over.
She wandered east along the coast, intending to travel all the way back to the mountain ridge to spend the night. The early afternoon was cloudy but at least it was dry. Or, it would be if she wasn't wading through the waves. What mattered was that it wasn't raining, which is why Sofi had felt safe enough to explore what she had been neglecting before; the coast of this area. It was odd, how the land had both a northern and a southern coast. She hadn't ever imagined that a place could be so sandwiched by water.
A lighthouse on an island caught her eye, and she paused, eying it from a distance and trying to estimate just how difficult the swim might be. It didn't look that bad...