the beach of wonders

It was the shuffling of a sibling moving against her that had her awake. Deluge seemed to find her mothers feet more than her siblings when it came to moving around the quickly cramping quarters so she slept lightly with her family and best out in the open. The movement as she trailed her brother seemed to wake whatever it was that gave her coat its ethereal glow, and she only managed to catch the edge of his whoa before she decided to drag her nails through the crunchy black sand to give her presence away. “Y’know sometimes the water glows like I do?” she asked her brother, not waiting for an answer before loping forward to splash in the frigid shallows.