the half

Lia could only watch in horror as the beautiful, shiny things were swallowed by the rolling waves. She was getting soaked to her belly now, but she couldn’t bring herself to care. She looked up to Hanako again, and the hurt in the other girl’s eyes was a slap to the face.

Still holding the bedding, she expected a blow. Instead, the other wolf stormed angrily away. That seemed even worse somehow. Adalia ran up the bank and carefully placed the Lady's bedding on the grass between the ocean territory and the plains, before racing back to the den.

She couldn’t swim, but she wasn’t going to give up that easily. She ducked her head under the rising waves, she felt about with her paws. Desperate to find anything that had fallen from that beautiful box.