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Inland, the temperature would have been quite hot, still and muggy; she'd traipsed through a woodland earlier in the day and had found the air too stifling and calm, and had immediately returned to the coast as soon as she was able to do so. With a growl, her stomach reminded her that she needed to eat, and thus her return to the coast was made with a quickened step- there was nothing quite like seafood, and Aislynn cared for very little else. She was pleased, then, to hear the groans and squalls of sea lions as she approached a cliff overlooking the seashore.
With clever feet she picked her way down the rocky ledge to the shore which was a mix of sand and smoothe rocks; not what she preferred, of course, but at least it was better than the beaches she'd lived on before with sharp, cliff rocks that covered something that could hardly have been called a beach. Immense logs, stripped of bark, piled along the shore, tossed there like matchsticks by the waves and left the bleach in the sun. Striding up to one, she peered over, scanning the small group of sea lions and licking her lips hungrily. All she'd need to do is sneak a pup away, if there were any that were small enough.
It was fairly late in the summer to be looking at sea lions like a meal; the pups had grown and now possessed fangs that would make them dangerous if not hunted with another wolf. She was tempted to take the risk, and her stomach urged her to at least give it a try, but she had more sense than that, albeit simply because of experience. She'd been foolish enough before to try and snag a young sealion and it had left deep puncture woulds in her shoulder. She couldn't risk it.
Turning a blind eye to the animals sunbathing on the rocks, she moved closer to the shoreline which became slippery with seaweed. It wasn't as good as meat, but it would do for now, until she found a river with a salmon run, or something of the sort. She snacked on seaweed and chewed barnacles off rocks, scavenging here and there like a coyote to try and cure herself of hunger.
Inland, the temperature would have been quite hot, still and muggy; she'd traipsed through a woodland earlier in the day and had found the air too stifling and calm, and had immediately returned to the coast as soon as she was able to do so. With a growl, her stomach reminded her that she needed to eat, and thus her return to the coast was made with a quickened step- there was nothing quite like seafood, and Aislynn cared for very little else. She was pleased, then, to hear the groans and squalls of sea lions as she approached a cliff overlooking the seashore.
With clever feet she picked her way down the rocky ledge to the shore which was a mix of sand and smoothe rocks; not what she preferred, of course, but at least it was better than the beaches she'd lived on before with sharp, cliff rocks that covered something that could hardly have been called a beach. Immense logs, stripped of bark, piled along the shore, tossed there like matchsticks by the waves and left the bleach in the sun. Striding up to one, she peered over, scanning the small group of sea lions and licking her lips hungrily. All she'd need to do is sneak a pup away, if there were any that were small enough.
It was fairly late in the summer to be looking at sea lions like a meal; the pups had grown and now possessed fangs that would make them dangerous if not hunted with another wolf. She was tempted to take the risk, and her stomach urged her to at least give it a try, but she had more sense than that, albeit simply because of experience. She'd been foolish enough before to try and snag a young sealion and it had left deep puncture woulds in her shoulder. She couldn't risk it.
Turning a blind eye to the animals sunbathing on the rocks, she moved closer to the shoreline which became slippery with seaweed. It wasn't as good as meat, but it would do for now, until she found a river with a salmon run, or something of the sort. She snacked on seaweed and chewed barnacles off rocks, scavenging here and there like a coyote to try and cure herself of hunger.
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