Dragoncrest Cliffs twilight stone

Nothing bobbed on the surface, and little puddles of seafoam sparkled, as if to apologize for the gift it had taken from them. In her mind, tales of the loa resurfaced, and she gritted her teeth. "No!" She cried. No- she remembered the blue lobster, the one she had spared from an untimely death. Now, she begged for the same spirits she had spared to do the same for her, and for her family. 

Astera called out, and Suzu knew that her mother and aunt and anyone else within earshot would come racing- but that would take time, and time was not something Sobeille Miette would have. Angrily, she roared over the waves to Astera. "Stay on de land!" This was exactly what she'd been trying to avoid. this was exactly why Astera shouldn't have been in charge of the younger child- she couldn't handle what cruelty the ocean could muster in the blink of an eye. The last thing Suzu needed now was to be split between dragging out Astera or Sobeille so she could only hope that the former obeyed her, and remained on the shore. 

Again and again Suzu plunged her head beneath the surface, looking frantically for any sign of the pup beneath the water's surface. She was the colour of wet beach stones, and in the last shred of golden hour light, everything looked hazy and golden. The water moved as a giant organism, movements accentuated by the flotsam and jetsam in its depths. She lifted her head out of the water with a gasp and surveyed the surface again- in seeing nothing, she plunged into deeper waters, following the current. 

She exhaled a jet of bubbles beneath the surface and held her breath again, and when the tiny air pockets disappeared she saw something dark shift beneath a shaft of light. She inhaled another gasp of breath, and dove, fighting against her own buoyancy, spreading her toes so that she could dig deeper into the waters now that she had her sister in her sights. She could hear very little, so calm it was when she was completely submerged. 

With a great gasp she resurfaced, with her dark sister on her shoulders- only to see that the both of them had been carried much further out to sea. She breathed heavily, and began to swim parallel to the shore- in hopes of finding the propulsion she would need to help guide her back to shore once she freed herself from the riptide.