Sea Lion Shores when the shadow comes to take me away

val landed in a scree of sand.

rosalyn had turned -- this time she faced him. her remaining eye lost its glaze. rosalyn had snatched herself back from wherever it was her mind faded to. val was relived, but his heart did not stop its hammering. here was the closest he had ever been to the ocean since he was a cub: he could practically sense the rippling water between his toes.

she's waiting. i have to find her. it broke his heart to think rosalyn did not know. what he did next broke his heart again. it shattered around him in a rain of seaglass shrapnel.

i know maman, i know. val's head bowed. come with me.