val had been along the beach down by the sound when he'd first seen it: a glittering, pale thing just above the swash-line.
he was lucky in that moment the tide had receded. piqued by curiosity, val tentatively came closer.
a queen conch, nestled in the dark sand with her tall spikes rising in rosy spires. its beauty stunned him; it was larger than any shell he'd seen before, and while it was empty, its rosy spirals were still tinged in lively creams and peach.
he understood it to be a thing of profound beauty, and yet danger. in its life it must have been armed to the teeth. needling spines arrayed the back of its shell, and its lip thick and mottled by the scars of many battles. how it had ended its life and washed upon the shore, val did not know -- but he knew where it must go.
he placed it upon the grave of his maman. he only wished she had been here to see her son brave so close to the shoreline -- to see her grandchildren, her daughter, her future as sapphique somehow incomprehensibly rolled on without one of its founding matrons.
he was lucky in that moment the tide had receded. piqued by curiosity, val tentatively came closer.
a queen conch, nestled in the dark sand with her tall spikes rising in rosy spires. its beauty stunned him; it was larger than any shell he'd seen before, and while it was empty, its rosy spirals were still tinged in lively creams and peach.
he understood it to be a thing of profound beauty, and yet danger. in its life it must have been armed to the teeth. needling spines arrayed the back of its shell, and its lip thick and mottled by the scars of many battles. how it had ended its life and washed upon the shore, val did not know -- but he knew where it must go.
he placed it upon the grave of his maman. he only wished she had been here to see her son brave so close to the shoreline -- to see her grandchildren, her daughter, her future as sapphique somehow incomprehensibly rolled on without one of its founding matrons.
NEGATIVITY, WE JUST DEAD IT LIKE D-CON.
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