Ankyra Sound lingcod

the bald exposure of granite jutting from the sand looked like an immense forgotten obelisk, or something of that nature, although it cut from the sand with a wide profile rather than an erect one; and as sulukinak came upon it, creeping as a flea across a giant's spine, she was granted a view of the surrounding beach that might have impressed her, once.

she didn't see anything of note. the tide was far from where it usually sat, and she knew from experience it wasn't a forever thing. there might be something worth eating in one of the drying piles of refuse left behind, and that's what drew her along the granite ridge.

gulls had the same idea, and this was what drew sulukinak's eye in the beginning. the sea birds contended with crows as they picked their way through bands of shell and weeds.