Sequoia Coast Daughters of Sun & Moon

The moon child listened to her father speak and noted what he said with a nod and a searching stare upon the water. As he told her to look, she could feel the sand being sucked from beneath her feet as the waves pulled back in preparation to lap at the shore again. Samani was delighted with it. The smell of salt was heavy on the air and the water itself. She’d never smelled anything like it.

So transfixed with the ocean and the information she was receiving from their father, Samani had almost forgotten about Kausiut. When the peach turned her head toward where her sister was pouting, she blinked in confusion. Their mother attempted to rouse the other girl, urging her to go to the water to see. Samani wished that her sister would taste the air where she stood.

Kausiut, come see, Samani barked to her sharply.