Sea Lion Shores Everybody gets a little bit of stage fright

@Ypres

It was the first time that Ptarmigan had ever seen the ocean, and immediately she hated it.

Of course, that distaste was explained by her actions. She'd found the hot sand of the beach to be a comfort to her worn paws, and in her stroll along the edge of a river, eventually noticed the largest lake she had ever seen sprawling out away from the sand. Being a lone wolf was exhausting work, so it was no surprise that the Endore had rejoiced and immediately gone to it, finding its softly lapping current favourable to the rush of the Totoka for bathing.

Yet neither the sharp tang in the air nor experience could prepare her for the way the water tasted. She splashed into it carelessly, lowering her snout to slurp it up... And immediately began to gag and sputter. Her tail curled toward her stomach and her ears sought to hide amongst the downy hairs of her scalp as she back pedalled out of the water and eventually expelled every last salty drop she had ingested as bile on the ground.