July 06, 2023, 11:40 AM
(This post was last modified: July 09, 2023, 09:53 PM by Suzu.
Edit Reason: typos- wow, must've still been waking up when I wrote this!
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BWP:Your character discovers an orca pod has stranded fish along the beach
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When she saw kelp-covered driftwood stranded along the beach, she knew what to expect by the time she reached her net. She recognized the sticks, how they'd become tangled together by kelp and covered now by barnacles. She'd thought that with the kelp wrapped around them they'd formed an even tighter net to catch fish, crabs, even eels- but the tide had come up very high last night- land now, the ruins of her net lay cast along the shore. With a sullen face, she padded down the sandy beach, knowing she would have to assess the complete damage, and see how long it would take her to fix her net.
She resented the tide, then- for about five minutes. The time she took to travel with her head down, muttering to herself something sour about @Swordfish no longer being around to help her rebuild the net. He'd be disappointed that she'd not maintained it well enough to keep it upright.
A blast of air caused her to stop suddenly and lift her head- only to balk and bounce back a few feet from the sight. Great creatures, black and white, patrolled the waters dangerously close to shore. Perhaps one of them had charged her net and had broken it. She watched as their tall, dark dorsal fins cut through the waves, and how the creatures rushed through the curling surf with their jaws open- sending before them a shoal of small fish that were either snapped up by the orcas, or lay stranded on the beach.
The orcas receded with the waves, to circle around and come in with the next surge- sending more little silver fish flying as they tried to escape the wolves of the sea.
Whichever ones landed on the beach would now have to worry about the wolf of the land- Suzu- who snapped up the fish delightedly, and called out for her packmates to join her in the feast.
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Down the chute - by Suzu - July 06, 2023, 11:40 AM
RE: Down the chute - by Astera - July 09, 2023, 02:19 PM
RE: Down the chute - by Maleah - July 09, 2023, 09:51 PM
RE: Down the chute - by Suzu - July 09, 2023, 10:02 PM
RE: Down the chute - by Astera - July 10, 2023, 11:56 AM
RE: Down the chute - by Maleah - July 11, 2023, 06:12 PM
RE: Down the chute - by Suzu - July 20, 2023, 02:44 PM
RE: Down the chute - by Astera - July 20, 2023, 04:02 PM
RE: Down the chute - by Maleah - July 20, 2023, 05:06 PM
RE: Down the chute - by Suzu - July 21, 2023, 09:02 AM