Dragoncrest Cliffs why the hell the law wanna press me?

a gasp marked chani's emergence from the waves.
the girl snorted water from her eyes, shook it from her ears; but in her jaws she clutched half a sturgeon.
dragging it up onto siren's beach, she collapsed, her exhausted legs no longer able to support her weight. chani did not know it, but she had almost drowned, dragged down by the sea lion who had stolen half her fish.
yet it had been anger, not fear, which shaped her response; now she lay beside her catch, lifted a quivering paw, and rested it jubilantly atop the sodden scales.