Cerulean Cape maybe if we tell people the brain is an app they’ll start using it

No one tells you when you sign up for friendship that you might end up with a shattered heart. Yet surprisingly, Furi’s disappearance didn’t upset the Kru the way she thought it would have. There was no sadness or anger or guilt, there was only the crushing weight of loneliness and the sickening feeling that she had been abandoned yet again. And why was that? What had she done so wrong that she continued to be tossed aside like a piece of trash?

There wasn’t even doubt this time around, there was only acceptance and the pain that came with it. Furi was gone and she wasn’t coming back. Yes that reality sucked but what could she possibly do? She wouldn’t chase after those who did not want her, she’d constantly be exhausted if she did. She could only wait and hope and distract herself until the misery subsided and what better way to get her mind off things than a nice long walk along the beach?

She’d slipped past Drageda’s borders late last night and continued her trip through early morning, eventually finding herself along some shell infested beach when daylight had revealed her whereabouts. She’d probably have ended up lost were it not for the plover that sat contently on her back, her guide back to the cliffs that she had bribed with berries and twigs. It chirped loudly as a mole crab burrowed itself into the wet sand beside her paw and without any warning the shore bird fluttered down to peck at the escaping meal. 

She plopped her rump to the ground and watched with mild amusement as the plover continued to search for the crab, russet ears twitching every time the bird let out a cry. Eventually she picked herself up and began to dig at the soft sand, pausing every now and then to sniff for the shelled escapee. No luck. She rocked her hips until she fell back to the ground, wet sand clinging to her snout and haunches. For a moment she thought she felt some fleeting happiness but it was short lived as her mind wandered off and began to wonder if this perhaps was where she’d first met Furi.