Stavanger Bay Beyond the Water

velen did not answer until the pair had reached the sandbar. there, he hauled himself up, muscles working beneath his soaked pelt, and sighed rapturously with a grin tossed to howl. moving some ways away, the boy churned seawater from his fur and settled upon the sand.
"you can never starve next to the sea," he ventured first. "it's crammed full of all sorts of things to eat, and if it's too rough to swim for them, you can find clams and oysters and sea urchins on the rocks in the shallows." rolling his shoulders, velen looked fondly at the dark expanse. "sometimes she washes things ashore for us, too. fish. squid. sometimes a whale. that is good eating," he chuckled, glancing to howl to see what the other made of all this.