Cerulean Cape in front of me

Nova listened, the man coming closer, and the old woman opened her ghostly eyes to focus on him. They shone with contentedness, with a motherly warmth, and she lifted her black-tinged face from the stone to give him a smile. 
              "Good morning."
Stretching out her limbs to roll on her other side, both to sun it and see the stranger better, Nova's creamy tail fanned behind her in happiness. This, this was exactly what she'd needed, a day on the beach to relax and socialize.