everything the light touches

As her mother settled onto her hunches with the agreement that she'd teach her about the ocean, Rebel promptly sat down as well, looking up at her mom with eager energy while her tail whipped back and forth over the sand with energy only a puppy could possess. The first point of the lesson immediately blew her mind and didn't quite make sense within the context of the other things she had learned about the environment around her so far. How could something possibly be so big that they couldn't learn everything about it? She looked back over her shoulder at the rolling waves, squinting out toward the horizon, and realizing for possibly the first time just how far it stretched. When she was looking across the lake within Ashen's borders she could pretty easily see from one side to the other, but that was very much not the case with the ocean and she could start to believe her mother when she said there was no way for them to now everything about it.

She turned her magenta gaze back up toward her mother as she went on, warning her about how dangerous the ocean could be with all the different creatures that lived in there that could hurt her or how easy it was to drown in the huge amount of water. She figured that was probably supposed to scare her, but instead her mouth dropped open a bit with awe as she took in just how powerful the ocean was. It was way bigger and stronger and scarier than she had ever would have guessed! Now she wished there was some kind of way to be as strong as an ocean, but even with her fanciful puppy imaginings she knew that was pretty far fetched. "What kind of stuff lives in there?!" she asked excitedly, glancing back and forth between her mom and the water while she tried to imagine what kind of things could live in something so big. She had seen fish before in the lake, but if she scaled the lake up to the size of the ocean how big did that make the fish?!

"Rebel Klein"