We collected firewood and created a nestlike camp site in the corner where two walls still formed shelter, before stripping down to the skin and wading bare into the water like children. I had never swum in salt water, with sand sinking underfoot and the waves rolling in at me. Rivyn laughed and saved me as a wave tried to steal me into the deep.
“For a creature of the sea,” he mocked me setting me to my feet on the sand. “You fall victim to its foibles easily.”
“I’ve never been to the sea before,” I replied, undaunted. “I guess instinct only serves so well.”
We lay upon the sand with the gentle ebb of the shallow water sucking at us and the sun warm on our skin and I traced the salt that clung to his back like tiny diamonds. He rolled to the side and drew me under him so that t
