Sound of the Waves

Esperanza nodded as peaked out toward the distant ocean that was covered a deep purple and ruby color from the sunset that had formed. The waves crashed onto the shore, sending foam around the sand and gulping some of the small, crushed rocks into it's waters. The sand had become mush from the water, and easily packable. Her paw prints had been devoured by the water and some of the mush had covered the prints almost entirely.

"I see," Esper replied to the femme beside her, the emerald colored optics catching the fox colored fur that covered her body. Her head scanned around the ocean when something dark caught her attention, and there appeared to be hundreds!

The animals had used their flat fins or legs to get onto the sand and began to dig. It appeared that those animals had been female sea turtles, about ready to lay their eggs. The fae remembered hearing her adoptive father talking about them since he loved to learn about other animals besides packs and ranks.

"Sea turtles," Esperanza smiled in bewilderment as her ebony colored tail thumped against the sand, "They can lay around two-hundred eggs, but very rarely do most make it to the sea before they are devoured by coyotes, crows, anything that get to them." Esperanza replied as she smiled watching the turtles making their nest for their young. She could watch some birds, lying in wait for the perfect time to strike for the little morsels. Esperanza couldn't help herself and barked at the birds, causing them to fly. A smile crossed over her features and placed her cranium on her forepaws.