everything the light touches

Rebel listened with awe as her mother began to describe all of the kinds of fish and creatures that lived in the ocean, her jaw hanging open as she tried to imagine all of these things that she had never seen before. She had no idea what whales or sharks or rays were, but she wished she could see them! Giant things, things that looked like they were flying, fish that were super colorful... It all sounded like a made up fantasy instead of reality but she knew her mother wouldn't tell her a lie in a lesson like this!

"Wow..." she breathed as another grin crossed her lips, her tail wagging and sweeping away sand behind her in the process as she looked back out over the rolling, choppy ocean. It was so incredibly big, even bigger than she could probably ever imagine, but it sounded like it was just full of the coolest stuff! She couldn't want to be big enough to go swimming out there and see all kinds of stuff and find these fanciful creatures that she could only try to imagine and make up in her mind. "Is there a way to like... float out there? It's too big to swim across, right? My legs get tired just walking from our cave to here so we can't swim all over the ocean, right?" Of course the more information she was given the more questions she wanted to ask, finding more and more about this vast new terrain that she wanted to know.

"Rebel Klein"