Coconut Grove apotheosis

anu paused from his rifling to glance back at anti; presently, the male's attention was turned to the sky and the sea. anu lifted his head and scented the briny air, glancing towards the point of the horizon where it seemed to softly fold into the sea. there was a world there he had never seen, and would never discover.

slipping into the vernacular, anu spoke. "you like the water," he noted dryly, wringing his paw in a helpless gesture as he searched for the word for that endless expanse of water. their tongue did not have a word for ocean, and he grappled for a word that came close to describing just how unimaginably big the ocean appeared.