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but i hate to think about you with somebody else - Grayday - November 05, 2025
From the plains he veered east until the land wasn't so flat anymore, until the sounds of life returned to the air around him. He ended up with more than he'd bargained for, though. The salty-rot smell, the constant hissing of waves against the shore; he'd gone looking for a pretty place to waste his time and had found the whole damn ocean.
Well, it wasn't exactly a failure, at least. Grayday picked through the tall, soft grasses that covered the plateau, occasionally lifting his head to take in the sight of the water beyond. Maybe he would stay here for a time, rest up a bit. At least until he could look at all that water without the fur along his spine bristling.
RE: but i hate to think about you with somebody else - Riptyde - November 06, 2025
It'd sure been a long time since Riptide had seen a friend along the coastline. Oh, they were out there, he knew for sure - he smelled them crisscrossing his scent trail when he wasn't lookin' - but he hadn't managed to track down a single one, never since the sea-spun girl he'd romped with on the sand, or the pale man who'd taught him a better way to eat crabs.
Crabs had been on his mind when he'd descended into the tide pools today, but the sun had played so brilliantly on the ocean, and the waves - oh, how they'd crashed with such an explosion of sea foam! How could he not give chase? And so, Riptide's hunting devolved into a single minded drive to catch the flying water in his mouth. He laughed and lunged and snapped and spun. Gosh, it felt good to play again; felt good, to be a kid.
RE: but i hate to think about you with somebody else - Grayday - November 06, 2025
!!! <3
Closer to the water, he thought he heard the faint echo of youthful laughter. A trick of the mind, he thought, yet his steps angled toward the sound all the same. His ears swiveled toward it, hoping to catch it again. And — there it was!His pace picked up at first, but Grayday stopped dead when he actually laid eyes on the pale youth. Just some boy, playing in the water. Playing in it, like it couldn't sweep him out and away at any moment. The sight startled him so much that he didn't even think to call out a greeting. He only stared.
RE: but i hate to think about you with somebody else - Riptyde - November 07, 2025
<3!!
The ocean became to Riptide what ma and his siblings had been: a constant, a comfort. Some days, he swore he could hear them in the waves, a gentle rush, a wild whoop. Never clear enough to make out any words, but there, there, ever present, ever binding him to the sea.
Had they become the sea? Had he become the moon? He laughed again, as he always did when the absurd idea surfaced like something long buried, and he lunged again, and failed, again, to drive the water back. But what an idea! Might believe it too, if the ocean listened.
As it were, the ocean only caught his open mouth, and filled him with a gasp of sea water.
Riptide retorted with a spluttering hack - game over, bested again, another point given to the sea - and he back pedaled for the cool sand, where the raucous gulls laughed.
Oh, shut up,he cried as he left the waters, only for another hack to break his protest..
Wretched lot!but his eyes still caught with mischief, and his voice with strained amusement, even as he hunched down like a wet rat.