Stavanger Bay You Win or You Die

sobeille took in this troubling news of moonpack’s misfortune. even sapphique had grown quieter of late, and she wondered if the same pressures experienced in her homeland troubled moontide also. she thought of those she knew that had left for eresta, and those who disappeared without a trace.

she shared a quiet look with arrluk before her attention trailed to where he looked. a babble of sea lions, their round forms blotting the shore.

she stalked forward at a low crouch. the problem, she learned, was that on the beach there was no cover. they would see her and they would run for water.

head low and shoulders rounded, sobeille stuck to the swash-line and waited arrluk’s signal.