Cerulean Cape wave-wracked and wanton

a mingled sense of joy and awe coursed through him as the sleek-pelted coelacanth slipped his way, pressing her muzzle to the underside of his in greeting. the touch startled him slightly--she was real!--and he drew back carefully, looking down at her with astonished golden eyes.

she was real! for a long time--especially since trying and failing to find her, to wish her farewell before he left the isle--aditya had thought her a ghost, a hallucination he had dreamt up half-dead on the beach. like the spirit of one of his ancestors, come to bring him back to life. she was real, and she was here. and evidently familiar to his own family assembled; how were they connected.

"i am so happy to see you," aditya murmured down at her, smiling. he looked round, trying to find dawn in all this chaos. "my mate--" before he could speak further, sunny had greeted him with a friendly shove, and he grinned broadly at his brother-in-law. "sunny! how--" he broke off, peering intently at the boy. "did you get sick, too?!" he burst out incredulously, pressing his nose into sunny's nape for a brief instant. sure enough, the scent of illness clung to his pelt, sickly sweet.

seelie had wandered off, a black shadow bounding through the bright sand, and aditya turned to grayday--and catori, to his pleasure--eyes flashing in relief and puzzlement. "what did i stumble into here?" aditya laughed, tone pitched a little louder than normal above the hum of voices. "seelie--how do you know her? she helped me when i washed up on the shore, all those moons ago."

as many wolves he knew here, there were an equal amount of faces that weren't familiar to him. the one-eyed boy, whose pelt held an incredibly confusing jumble of scents. then the group of wolves that were on good terms with coelacanth, evidently.

above it all, the moon glowed a regal orange-gold, lighting the scene with a glow at once both warm and mysterious.