Season of Winter, Day 17, 511AV It was cold. Bitterly cold. And truth be told it was not the cold that bothered her. In fact, the decrease in temperature hardly made any difference to Ndale, she found it curious, if anything, for Mura was not nearly as cold. But the wind in Zelvita was biting, sweeping down from the frost tipped mountains, strong and with a vengeance that nearly made her regret leaving the warmth of her cottage. Still, she could not help but go. It made her happy and that was something she wanted to dissect. She wanted to know why it made her smile. Why the salt air and the soft lapping of waters mixed with the everyday hustle and bustle of the docks made her…content. Brushing past the people with relative ease she watched the water with a twinge of wistfulness, she had attempted and for reasons unknown to her, failed at swimming. Not a week before this she had walked to the docks and simply stepped off the edge. The cold, stinging depths had not only stunned her but nearly drowned her; it was not something she wished to repeat, no matter how enticing entering the sea seemed. Strangely enough the docks were not as quiet as she had though they would be, she had assumed, like most things, that the Season of Winter put everything at a dead halt. Especially water travel but it seemed not to matter, people milled about, boats were loaded and cleaned. She had nearly been there two years but weaving through the precision that was the docks came with the ease, though more often than not she usually came in her animal form, it was much quicker. This day had been much to chilly for that though and so she made her way to the less populated area of the docks, tugging her jacket around her and wondering, fleetingly, if she should invest in a cloak. Once she was free of the traffic that swarmed the docks, she settled herself comfortably one of the pier poles, to most though, it would look like she was attempting an acrobatic feat. Her legs tucked under her in a crouch while the rest of her body leaned forward awkwardly. She suspected it was due to her animal forms habit of perching like so when she did not change forms. It was better to stay like that most days anyhow, seeing as she would eventually get lead back towards the city so as to not get in the way of ‘traffic’. But even the short amount of time she was there was enough, people watching did not require a great deal of effort, she only had to pick a target. |