to be lit up from within
vein by vein
There had to be a better solution than heading out into the sea to her death. And she’d pondered it for a great while, entrenching herself into notes and calculations, asking locals and Naturals alike, wondering if there was the slimmest chance, the slightest opportunity, that some of these damned ghost whales ever ended up washing ashore. Dead and gone on their own terms, or found by something bigger, scarier, than them. Once in a great while came across. If you’re lucky came on a shrug, though anytime she’d met up with the oceanic monstrosities, there’d been no fortune at all.
So, the logical conclusion, before she sought to borrow her own schooner and recklessly cast her life aside for one damned quest, was to embark across the sands, to scour the seemingly endless reaches.
Armed and laden with some digging tools, she left them piled on the beach, having only recruited several by word of mouth. And even then, she was already restlessly combing the sands as dawn approached, listening to the sound of the waves as her toes dug into the sodden layers, striving to have a tiny bit of that luck now.
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PQ to find a ghost whale bone! It'll move on when everyone has posted. ;D
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to be the sun
MELITA
