"If I could fly I would never come back", you said
Could anything be better than this? With the wind stroking her plumage and the salt spray of ocean waves crusting on her beak, Maea felt truly at peace with herself, as much as was possible without Shii nestled against her soul. The vastness of the horizon and the black depths of the sea shrank her down to insignificance like nothing else could, and with it came a freedom she never felt except when she was flying. Free from cares, free from choices and freedom to go wherever she wished - no barriers of any kind held her back out here, and she loved it so fiercely there was no word in any tongue she knew that could convey it.
A flicker of silver beneath the waves alerted her to the presence of something moving down below. Large bodies of mackerel had been chased close to the surface by a pod of dark hunters - orca, from the look of it - and were trying to outrun them. Sounding a caw to alert Thalassa, the crow began to follow their movements, looking for an opportunity to make away with a fish before the wolves of the sea began their feast.
A flicker of silver beneath the waves alerted her to the presence of something moving down below. Large bodies of mackerel had been chased close to the surface by a pod of dark hunters - orca, from the look of it - and were trying to outrun them. Sounding a caw to alert Thalassa, the crow began to follow their movements, looking for an opportunity to make away with a fish before the wolves of the sea began their feast.
Maea
