Armada Expansion: Navigation

Kotori followed along with his mom and Keahi to check out more of the land that would become theirs.  Kotori had plenty of things on his mind that he had limited interest in the beach.  It was cold and the wind just made it worse.  Ikigai was in his mind as his trip that would soon take him back to where the cold would be less intense, to Ashen.  How bitter, going to visit ashen now that Iki wouldn’t be there.

Turning his attention from his own problems he glanced about the beach a the wind ran its icy fingers through his coat. At Zee’s mention of the volcano, he glanced in the mentioned direction, watching there for a moment.  “Well, the tree’s here either grow real fast or its been dormant a long time.”  Whether that was good or not Kotori had no idea.  Dormant today didn’t mean it couldn’t be active tomorrow.  Was there an average time period between dormancy and activity in volcanos?

Kotori made his way to the edge of the beach, jerking his paw back as a wave touched it.  Water was cold as the depths of the abyss.  “The water here lacks the vegetation we had on our beach.  I imagine the fish that prefer this sort of coast will be different also.”  Kotori knew their beach and he’d followed the Rio Grande a few times but this wide-open beach was something he’d spent little time on.  “Do the fish even come up this close to the beach or will we need to go out into deeper water to get them?”

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