Emerging from the Grip of Night's Unfolding Arms

Okay, so Lili was absolutely not supposed to be doing this. But the girl had never exactly been one for rules... she'd always been one of the more energetic of her siblings. And well, frankly she often thought of herself as invincible, her parents had warned not swim by herself but what was the worst that could happen really?

And now that she'd explored every inch of the island they'd evacuated to, some with Lachland and some without, she was bored! So she'd done the worst thing she could have, she'd left the island. Swiming back towards the mainland. It hadn't looked quite so far away from the shore of the island but now.... well she was exhausted.

As the girl pulled herself up to the shore, she was shivering from exhaustion and the chill of the ocean. Her legs ached and as she could feel her balance wavering she forced herself further forwards, not wanting to be swept back into the sea. She didn't really see the depression until she was practically tumbling down into it, luckily for her she'd found a path down so that when she finally collapsed onto her side she was at most a little bruised but otherwise fine. She allowed the grass to tickle he nose and paws as she panted, simply letting her young body recover from what she'd put it through.