the way that it shines may just dwindle with time

hi!

She watched the lashing crestwaves as they rose and fell like the heaping strike of a thousand quivering whips; her dreary eyes following the bleak cascades with listless interest. The tide quibbled around her pasterns now, thick with sand and cold -- so cold. It was sudden then, a wave that rose from the roiling depths like some god's drowned hand -- and swiftly it swept besides her, an overpowering crash that suckled the resistance from her frame in the manner a wicked predator would suckle marrow from splintered bones. She scarcely had time to gasp; eyes wide underwater and chin bubbling with air as something mortal and powerful wrenched her from the undercurrent and tossed her towards the leadened sand. She blinked as if surprised by this turn of events, and shaking herself off as if nothing had happened, she addressed her alpha. "Come again?"