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| ♪ Aqua | Dec 19 2012, 11:56 AM Post #1 |
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The breeze was cool and comforting on her back, the steady pour of rain from the heavens gentle, like a mother caressing a lonely child. It pattered against the gray-ish sand, rippling the earth into vast ridges and swirls. Pecking aimlessly in the grit covering the ground, hopped a small white bird. Quietly searching for a straying hermit crab or perhaps a dead fish. With a ruffle of its alabaster feathers it ventured ever closer to the solitary figure lingering by the shore. Curiously, it nibbled at her bare toes. Aqua flinched but did not retaliate. Instead she leaned down and extended a shy hand towards the creature. Smugly it turned away and leapt into the sky, its small shape devoured by clouds not long into its flight. Sapphire hues, blinking rapidly from the raindrops sticking to their lashes, watched it go. From her lips drifted the soft notes of a lullaby she didn’t remember the words to, only the melody. Against her face stuck thick tendrils of soaked blue hair, hanging in her eyes and swinging as she moved. Her feet marched on without her noticing, and occasionally her arm reached to grab at a shell, just to let it sink down again. Night would arrive soon. She knew that by the glimpses she grabbed of the sky- a dusty violet. Drops of water slid down the smooth skin of her stocking-less legs, pooling at her feet where the sand dipped into a low pit. She was shivering but she did not care. She'd faced a far more quaking cold than this. A cold that seeped into the marrow of her bones. A cold that penetrated her figurative armor, that she barely kept from dimming her light. But thinking about that place caused her to shudder, and not because of the frigid conditions. Filled with a resolve to keep her mind clear of gloomy thoughts, Aqua pulled back memories she thought forgotten, of her happy childhood and adolescence, of sunbeams and mountains and starlight. Only when the tide lapped at her ankles did she glance down. And on that dreary, sad little stretch of late afternoon seashore, she began to remember. As clearly as she the events had taken place, she recalled the first time she had seen the sea. Eraqus had taken Terra and Aqua, barely more than eight or nine, into a friendly, sparsely populated world, where they constantly begged and pleaded for their Master to allow them just one little expedition into the water. He had instructed them just to wade, but neither of them listened. They shrieked and splashed like children do, sending sheets of ocean spray at each other with the palms of their hands. Their Master watching them with a fondly knowing look. They played there until the sun perched orange against the endless expanse of water, clouds painted shades of purple and yellow and pink and blue. Until Eraqus had to practically drag them away. Two laughing, sand-battered little kids they had been. Years later, much older, they returned to the sea, with Ventus diving into the waves just as they had when they were young. The rain had lessened to a mist now; her hair had partially dried but was still damp and dripped over the bare skin of her back. The rest of her clothes- her socks, sashes, sleeves, and gloves- were in a tight plastic bag farther up along the shore, next to her shoes. But no doubt the humidity, if not the shower, had moistened them. Deciding it would be better not to catch a cold in this chilly atmosphere, Aqua rinsed the sand off her arms and began the trek up the dunes, taking fleeting glances back and swearing that she saw the silhouettes of two young children, chasing each other through the seafoam. sometimes i write weird things and like them and this is one of those times |
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