Seaside Moors Light

She flattened her ears when her mother spoke, soaking in whatever pity and sympathy she could get in the moment as she tried to fight against the light that was just a bit too much. Her mother spoke again and she buried her face deeper into the warm, soft fur of her mother's side, half fearing that she might be nudged away from where she currently was. She wasn't sure what it was that her mother had just told her- but from her tone, she could infer that she was being reassured...So even without being nudged or pushed, she slowly relaxed, and began to pull her face out of her mother's fur, turning first one squinted eye and then the other toward the glowing horizon. 

It took some time for her eyes to adjust. But it didn't take long for her to realize that with the light came warmth. A different warmth, a silent warmth- warmth that didn't come from fur and flesh, but from the air itself. She sniffed the air lightly, as though expecting she might find something more tangible about the sun and its light- but found that it was much more distant than she could ever reach. Still, she felt herself curious, and drawn to pull away from her mother- testing out the warmth of the sun's rays as though fearing it might disappear in a moment- and took a few wavering steps forward. Slowly, her tail began to wag. This wasn't so bad after all.