Strong Are We

She'd never been off of the main continent before, so when her wandering brought her to the shore, she grew nostalgic. She hadn't been to the beach in a long time, not since she had stopped going to the cove in the hopeless wait for her family to return. For years she waited. Almost six, to be exact. And that was six years too long. She had wasted so much of her life waiting for them, that she hadn't taken the time to focus on herself. And it was because of that, because of her naivete that things hadn't been the best in her life. She had been enslaved, and freed. She had thought she found love, only to find out it was a lie. Now, now she was smarter.

As she looked out over the ocean towards mainland, the ocean breeze caressed her wet pelt. She felt...Calm. Like her worries were gone, if only for the moment. The swim over the reef had been short, and she certainly wouldn't mind swimming here more often. As the sun beat down on her, she settled herself into the sand as she closed her eyes and listened to the gulls and the sound of the waves.

"Speech"