Solira: The Ocean: turn soonest to the sea; ANY

She is young, and restless as she watches from the ridge, gazing into the dark waters.

Often enough she watched her father do it. And in silence so too observed the quiet turning of the waves and the gulls as they flew above them. But today, today is different as she gazes into those same waters with sorrow-filled eyes and a heavy heart. Part of it is hope, hope of her fathers return, part of it is nothing in general but the same empty feeling.

It is a wonder, this child. As vague as it was, all those cool nights she spent so near her mothers side. Cradling herself around her legs, and a warm tongue on her back. Then one morning, she said goodbye. She knew it wasn’t just she had better things to do then take care of her young. But it was time, as time always comes at the most unwanted of moments. It was time for her to start her own life, and she begun it at her fathers side.

She knew he loved her, or at least she thought. Before he too told her it was time for him to move on.

So for now the child is left at the ocean, alone with brooding thoughts and tiresome eyes. A gull perches itself upon a branch of a tree that lingers so near her. A deep sigh escapes from her tiny chest as she watches it. Nimir-raj would laze up there and spend his days sleeping, but now the gull unafraid of the cat, who would never return perched there.

The wind swept her tiny voice as her big eyes continued to eye it. “Why?“ She mews, it is a question she knows will never be answered, but still she does, for unknown reasons. Once again she sighs and her ocean blue eyes turn back to the sea.

To brood. To be alone. To wonder, why?

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earth III; micah and rowan