Great Bear Wilderness Sea Born

He leaned into her arms. Once a boy, now a fine grown man. His athletic figure was riddled with small little shudders, like tiny little waves of the ocean.

She had no answers. Not the one's he sought. Brow pressing into the herbal scent of pale fur, he scrunched his eyes shut.

"Then...w-why do I feel so weighed with guilt? The ceremony...I was there. It should have been me, not her!" His voice cracked. 

He felt like a bad omen. A sister, lost. One whose beautiful eyes and voice he would never know.