Sea Lion Shores when the shadow comes to take me away

She leaned on him heavily, awash with the scent of salt and of another home. This flickered through her thoughts before being lost to the haze of exhaustion, a space where simply continuing forward would take most of what she had to give.

Unbeknownst to her, they walked the way she had come, turning further and further from the shore where the ghost of her beloved’s memory waited to welcome her home.