The afternoon's heat eventually roused her from her rest, although her gnarled-root bed had been comfortably in the shade of Sunspire's forest groves. She came up from it feeling motivated, though, and with an itch to put some ground underneath her paws.

So she decided to head out about midday. The path she found was, as seemed natural, the riverside. Her nose aimed towards the sea and she gathered speed.

Her guards were up. More packs bordered these areas than when she had been a loner. It had started to become difficult to move undetected back then even. Meandering purposelessly had turned into a risk.

Now, even the scents had changed in a great many ways. She loped steadily on through and reached the coastline near dusk. Or rather, the coastline came to her. The tides were up -- abnormally so, if memory served her correctly. Although it had been a while since she had smelled the sea so plainly.

It swelled to swallow the last tapering tendrils of the freshwater and her steps slowed considerably. Ame waded in brackish waters and peered overhead towards the large moon, somewhat curious. The celestial sights had been one to admire lately, first with the solar eclipse and then this. Ame wondered, fleetingly, what this meant before dunking her whole self beneath the surface as she had once seen the pale-furred shaman do. As she shook the excess water weight from her fur, she welcomed the coolness of the sea.

The sound and scent of the sea took hold of her senses. The sight, too, spread before her towards the horizon. On the other side, Amekaze could not fathom. She only assumed there would be something.. eventually. All water had land edging it at one point but an existence like hers could not begin to understand just how many miles upon miles it actually was, let alone visualize it.

Her ears, having previously settled to a relaxed-back position, sprung forward at a voice. She was just as quick to turn her head, summoning alertness back into her dampened form with which to regard the pacing female. It was a warning voiced for her and while she did not feel the need to heed it, particularly, she took a few wading steps closer. It is fine, so long as you keep your footing, she called back, hoping to ease the wolf's mind some, for she seemed concerned about it. The pull was not so strong this far back so Ame was not particularly worried. The second it started feeling uncertain, she would be out. The sea was far too great a power for her to test it.

But.. flooding? She peered at the waters then, deciding that was a decent enough way to describe it. However, not one she had ever thought to use before. It all definitely looked like flooding but here it was different than a swollen creek or river that had taken on too much rain and neither was it caused by something as that. Not nearby, anyway.

She understood the tides to be linked to the days and passing of time. It was cyclical in its nature, like moon phases. Although, she did not know their greater cause -- as to what it was that gave the sea this motivation. It is just an exceptionally high tide. Although, it does truly seem like flooding from here.. she reasoned as she shook her fur again.

She still wasn't worried, and had not intended humor in the gesture of not hopping from the water's reach immediately. Her ears remained splayed and was reluctant to heed the words too quickly so not to seem overly compliant. As to why this wolf cared to see her leave the water, she could not quite guess though. I am not worried, she mentioned, although ebbed up to even shallower water just so that her ankles could still be wet.

She revered the power of the sea and knew it could kill her at any moment it deemed suitable. One wave too many, just enough to topple her balance with a properly timed current and she'd be swept away just like that. However, she didn't fear it. Not entirely and not as she once had moons ago. Reverence suited her relationship with it now more and since she rarely came to see it now, she only wished to enjoy it all she could. Are you uneasy because it is so far up? she asked, looking to pinpoint the worry's reason to see if it went further than just the ocean as a whole. Or is it just the sea itself? It felt bizarre, but strangely alluring still. Yet she doubted the other green-eyed female felt the same way as she did..

She would not exhaust too much energy in trying to pressure this female into believing it was safe here. If she remained unconvinced, then so be it. Ame would not let her worry rub off onto her any. She had dealt with her fear of it and not been swayed to think otherwise.

Blinking some seasalt from her eyes, she gestured to the vast, swollen waters stretching to the distant horizon. The sea. The whole lot of it. Also called ocean, and probably other names as well, a giant body of saltwater.. She briefed. Now she was coming to understand her nervousness -- likely prompted by the enormity of this unknown here before her.

I think it may be the other way around.. she murmured in response, eyes pulling skyward then towards the oddly vast moon. Although, she could be wrong. It may work either way, truthfully, but since the sun's celestial body dominated so much, she reasoned the moon would have greater power than anything here on earth as well.. even the ocean. If the moon's pull did shift the tides regularly anyway, as she had always been lead to believe, a massive moon ought to make for exceptional tides.

It had been wolves more familiar with the place that had introduced her to this knowledge in the first place, although they were apt to be much more thorough than she generally was. However, she did not sense that this wolf wished to hear the whole spiel anyway. The subject may simply not appeal and Amekaze would not be going out of her way to change this.

Few things in nature cycle the way they both do, she answered vaguely. To her this suggested a link of some type. And those more knowledgeable have taught me the sea shifts alongside the moon's phases, at least in part, to their observations as well.. she answered. Perhaps if there had been a time before the moon, the flux of the tides may not have existed at all. Although, this posed the question of which came to being first, the sea or the moon? She could not look this far into it. But there is no way to know for certain, Ame offered. She could not absolutely claim her information as law, just a highly supported theory.