stop mooning me

Deluge sulked the whole way. It was a plan to get away from her mother, and she’d never shown an interest before. How come she was suddenly so interested now that she was a grown ass woman and capable of looking after herself? (In her own eyes anyway). At least she had Scald for company and Sakana had come along too. What was it with that kid and following her like a shadow? He’d even followed her to the same beach and made friends with the same sort of bird for crying out loud!

At least this time she finally made it all the way across the land bridge…

There were all sorts of strange sights and scents, there seemed to be packs popping up all over the place like daisies down here! She was puzzled why her mother had chosen to just stop in a field of bones, with no word, just plunked her fluffy ass down and started staring at the sky. Gosh she was so infuriating! Deluge chewed her tongue for a bit, paced back and forth, and just as she was about to open her mouth and ask ‘what the hell woman?’ her mother spoke. West? The girl spun trying to get her bearings. If she could remember what way they had come from, well that was North right? except the light was failing and there were no familiar landmarks to point the way home. The girl groaned and looked to the stars, there weren’t enough of them yet to spot the ones that she used to find her way back to the plunder, and this far south everything looked different! "That way?” she gestured with a toss of her head, sarcasm heavy on her tongue, to the left (which inevitably ended up being north).

She was too caught up wondering what her mother was playing at to take any of it seriously.