Blackbeak Bluff andante

Kasatka was exploring, still intent on finding a nice beach to frequent. The bluffs didn't look like the right place for that, but she'd already come all this way, hadn't she? There was no point in turning back now, when she knew she wouldn't be able to find anything closer before it was time to go home - so she explored, stopping frequently to stare out at the sea.

Her mother had spoken about it often. Kasatka couldn't help but think about how, the first time she'd seen it, she'd been all on her own. Actually, she couldn't think of any time she'd viewed the ocean in company, and that revelation made her kind of sad.

After one such stop, she turned her head to see a dark shape moving into the hollow trunk of a tree. Kasatka dropped at once into a hunter's crouch and began stalking closer, wondering if it was something edible or something that might want to eat her.