Ankyra Sound a shadow of the past

a man, a man she did not know, washed into the sound. back from the rise, chani had devoted herself as well to the search for astera and miette, and had been swimming not far off.
streaming water, chani had come back to the shore and then stiffened to see the large wolf, tangled so horribly into sea-debris that it took her to draw close before she could make sense of what she saw.
she called out for anyone of her family near, but it was their fearlessness that led the girl to approach, hackles risen as she sniffed toward a great paw, backing away swiftly.