Wheeling Gull Isle and when you move, I'm moved

she'd come impulsively, throwing herself into travel and against the hazards of the mountains. she'd hesitated for a fortnight to come here, knowing that Aditya's trail ended here (even though she'd promised not to seek him out) and that Sunny's vague story about what he'd done would suddenly become real if she spoke to the sea-wolves, somehow, and she longed for it somehow not to be. but she'd promised and little good came from avoidance, and she she'd struck out against the brine and waves that reminded her achingly of a summer here, once, seemingly eons ago. 

when she stood on the shore, travel-weary and sodden (having swallowd too a great deal of sea-water that had her throat burn) she called for company, remaining within reach of the lapping waves as fridgid wind laced through her pelt.
@Coelacanth