Stavanger Bay at tara in this fateful hour

@Skellige, or any other of our pack. Set after Salt, as Doe/Doctor arrives at the bay. Slight PP - assuming Doe gets there first by running ahead.

There were four birds, all scuttling across the sand. White bird, white bird, grey bird, brown bird. Big birds, with red, red feet. Getting bigger and bigger as she streaked toward them, Skellige already far behind her.

The sands were shimmering, all white and gold, flying around her as she tore over them in her excitement. This was home. Those vivid blue waters, the scuttling crabs, the white-topped plumes of grass that stretched up taller than her head.

Shink fell to the ground and was caste aside, forgotten in favor of the landscape around her. She rolled around in the surf, romping happily through the waters, picking up long strings of seaweed and tugging them through the waves. The saline breeze was filling her nose with scents she'd never smelled before, and the water tasted like no water she'd ever known.

Doctor was thrilled with it all, her heart feeling as though it would swell right out of her chest. Eventually, she could could glory in it no longer, and the lissome wolf fell dizzily into the sand. I have missed sand so much, she thought, nuzzling her cheek further into the warm, smooth grains. Everything was so warm, so sweet-smelling. She was so tired... a nap sounded very nice - Would Skellige allow her to have a nap before she got around to blessing the land?

She opened a lazy eye to see if he'd caught up yet - so fierce had been her celebration that she did not even realize it'd only been a minute or two - when she saw something that made her heart skip a beat.

A wave was rising up, faster and faster onto the shore, and Shink was right there.

With a wordless cry, Doctor leapt to her paws and made a mad dash toward her friend. Before she could reach it, the white bone was already disappearing under the surf. Doctor made another angry sound as she crashed into the waters, coughing as the salty waves went up her nose. Still, she could not be dissuaded. The shewolf waded deeper and deeper, until her paws could no longer touch the ground, and she had to duck her head under the waves to see the ground -

There was a whole different world, under there. She could hardly see, but beneath the cerulean waves was a murky place she could never have imagined. Glittering particles swirled past her nose, casting a strange glow on the sandy bottom - and the sand here was different, too. Grainer, but infinitely more colorful. She stared in wonder at the rainbow beneath her paws, almost forgetting what she'd come here to do.

And there, just a little deeper than she was, a pearly white jawbone was floating peacefully in the current. Everything seems peaceful down here, she thought, paddling toward her dancing pup. Or... was it a pup? How could a bone be a pup? One from a herbivore, no less.

Stop that. You're down here - it must be important.

So Doctor grabbed the bone and let the water pull her back to the surface, where she was immediately bowled over by the pummeling waves. Panic set in almost at once - she'd never been so deep in water, so far from shore. The salt was in her nose, her mouth, her lungs, and she couldn't cough without dropping Shink -

Her paws touched the ground, followed rather violently by the rest of her body. She rolled awkwardly in the water for a few seconds before finding her legs, and then she dragged herself quickly from the surf, tail wagging madly as she found herself back on dry land.

"Whoa," she said, dizzy all over again.