Undulating Waves [PRP:Liam]

[scrii]

[haven't RPed in about ten thousand years lol]

It was peaceful here. The sands stretched like white wings towards the horizon, with the light breeze bringing refreshment while not transforming sand grains into tiny needles. With the skies a soft grey and the water following lead, there was not a single figure in sight to break the scenery, apart from two shadows who were seated on the pure shore.

Karleigh traced the last line of an undulating pattern in the sand, her finger resting in the final spot before being lifted up. No doubt the waves would come in and wash it away before long, but it was nice to marvel at it for awhile. Not that she was being proud and boastful, but it was nice to leave a mark on the timeless shore of Scatterstone. She crossed her arms over her knees and gazed out towards the ocean now, green eyes watching the horizon as if a ship might appear and whisk them away on an adventure to distant lands...

"Liam," she said suddenly, looking over to her brother and breaking off her own line of thought, "Where's Fain?"

It had been a long time since Liam had discovered he could 'communicate' with the dog at Rakine. Was it months? Or years? It was hard to keep track of time, and even harder to remember the very concept while on this beach. However much time had lapsed, though, it hadn't changed the fact that she was still so unused to 'talking' with the animal. Perhaps it would take another lifetime to understand it, especially as she couldn't hear the dog's thoughts herself -- only what she perceived in his body language and facial expressions.

Liam, however, just broke out into conversation, and Karleigh could never tell who had initiated it. Then again, she thought, He's the one who's being stared at in the street, and being branded as a schizophrenic. She grinned to herself, before shifting forward towards the slightly dampened strip of sand.

She began sculpting a chair. It was hard to tell with the overcast sky, but the gypsy knew that night would fall soon -- hopefully the clouds would clear enough for them to be able to watch the stars.

For now, though, she was stuck with her brother on a desolate beach, and she had to make the best of it.

[lilshortiy]

The beach. Liam failed to understand what was so amazing about it. He also failed to realise that his 'telepathic', or so he thought, companion was not present. Ever since he'd figured he and Fain could communicate, his sanity had seemingly dwindled. Not that it mattered, gypsies weren't always on the best terms with the rest of society. But then again, even gypsies would have their say on full conversations with a dog, let alone any animal. Probably try to cash in on it. Liam chuckled quietly to himself. Oh, the undulations in life the characteristic border collie had caused him. That, plus his loud twin sister Karleigh.

"Liam...Where's Fain?"

He shrugged and let a low mumble escape his mouth. Maybe more like a confused grumble. Maybe he should have been enjoying the solitude a little more, but the 30cm gap between the two of them and the waves was closing, and he started to worry about getting wet and all the troubles with doing so. If only he'd a stool or a chair or ANYTHING. or he could just move to higher ground.

All this useless thinking had him zoned out, until Karleigh started purposefully shifting the sand, which meant only one thing. Sand chairs.
Probably one of the only things he enjoyed at the beach. He shifted a little higher up, digging his heels into the sand, using his toes to flick away the sand.
"Leigh, why are we doing this? It doesn't look like the skies will be clear tonight." He said in a low voice, still concentrating on how to make his sand chair big and deep enough for him.
"Oh but, there will be the 3rd appearance of The Nobo comet tonight, the first in the past decade."


Oh if only Fain were here. He'd make digging a whole lot easier.

[scrii]

(LOLWHAAAT)

Karleigh huffed when her brother grumbled a response. Typical. She knew he wanted to be among his books, poring over constellations or chemical bonds or gravitational potential energy or whatever. Something boring like that. "Come on, Liam, you have to learn to get used to the outside world! And to water. You of all people should know how much water there is on the Earth. The ocean isn't even that cold today," she said, molding her lump of sand into something more meaningful.

Out of the corner of her eye she could see Liam move further up the beach, playing with the sand with his toes and creating tiny undulating hills.

"Leigh, why are we doing this? It doesn't look like the skies will be clear tonight. Oh but, there will be the 3rd appearance of The Nobo comet tonight, the first in the past decade."

"Does everything we do have to have a reason? Some inner motive? Even if the clouds don't clear up, it'll still be nice. The weather's not cold, either." She laughed at his last statement. "Trust you to know that stuff. Well then, let's hope we see this Nobo comet! We might not be here for the next one, who knows what newfangled thing they'll come up with, with the new technology these days. Maybe something that will create black holes and suck us all in?" Karleigh grinned. The very thought of that was stupid. Surely researchers (or whoever really invented those things anyway) would have enough common sense not to do that. Not that she knew how anything in space worked -- she just liked looking at them. Wasn't it enough to appreciate things at their surface value?

The girl finished making her chair and settled down into it, extending her legs slightly so her toes could bury into the damp sand, the cool water lapping around her feet. The soft whispers of the tide were almost lulling enough to induce sleep, if she wasn't aware that her brother might try something on her while her eyes were closed.

Then again, it made no difference with her back to him, and she couldn't see Liam's progress of his own chair. However, she could guess his trepidation of the incoming tide. Why else would he build his own chair so far back? He was also probably wishing he had his dog-friend to do it for him.

Just as Karleigh was thinking this, the skies began to clear -- just a little bit -- so that she could spy a deepening indigo window into the heavens. "Oh!" she breathed, delighted at the sight and also glad she could claim yet another win over her brother and his pessimism. "Look, Liam! The clouds are shifting! Maybe we will get to see the comet tonight." What she hadn't noticed, though, was that at the same time the handful of stars had become visible, an orange pinprick of light had materialized on the horizon.

A ship.

[lilshortiy]

So his attempt at a sand chair failed. It was more of a single undulation in the sand. He could dig better, he just didn't feel like it, that's all.

"... with the new technology these days. Maybe something that will create black holes and suck us all in."

"That's stupid. Even if they DID make some silly weapon-of-mass-destruction like that, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be alive." Liam lay back in the shallow excuse for a sand-chair. Not that great, but good enough. Maybe if the world did end, and got sucked up into a black hole-things little rabbits would appear from everywhere and start cultivating carrots. And everyone would turn orange from the extreme intake of carrots. Or maybe everyone would be dead. Except for the rabbits.

Boy, was it lonely sitting up here, all nice and dry away from the sea, without his sister. Well, almost, seeing as it was only her, him and a tiny dot on the horiz-, wait what?

"Look, Liam! The clouds are shifting! Maybe we will get to see the comet tonight."

A definite que to move closer.

The sloppy sand stuck to his feet, and splashed up around his calves. A small sacrifice for an almost once in a lifetime opportunity, be it that dot that was not so much a dot now, or that Nobo comet.

"Hey you seeing that?" he paused. "That, suspicious light just to the left?"

A very vague dimmed-out bell rang before another light from a different vessel flickered on. Very Very much closer this time. Close enough for Liam to see the skull and cross bones flag.