"sand between one's toes" - Deaths, Julian De'Ath, the brotherstaennynAugust 5 2010, 22:46:03 UTC
Her first step onto the sand was, perhaps, unnecessarily cautious, but that was no cause for her laughing father to sweep her off her feet entirely and wander down to the sea, her uncle trailing them at a distance.
"Down!" she protested, and her father complied, setting her down more than halfway to the water with no familiar stone or dirt to set her feet on in order to better contrast the sand's consistency with them.
She scowled down at her feet, and the sand between her bare toes, then took a tentative step--sideways to the water and the rocks they'd come from--feeling how her feet sank and shifted beneath her. Took another step, consideringly, and then went for the back of her uncle's knees in a rush that brought him full length into the sand with her crowing triumph above him.
Her uncle drew a breath, then rolled onto his back--she scrambled out of the way so he couldn't grab her--and eyed her father. "Your kid," he said, and her father started laughing again.
"Down!" she protested, and her father complied, setting her down more than halfway to the water with no familiar stone or dirt to set her feet on in order to better contrast the sand's consistency with them.
She scowled down at her feet, and the sand between her bare toes, then took a tentative step--sideways to the water and the rocks they'd come from--feeling how her feet sank and shifted beneath her. Took another step, consideringly, and then went for the back of her uncle's knees in a rush that brought him full length into the sand with her crowing triumph above him.
Her uncle drew a breath, then rolled onto his back--she scrambled out of the way so he couldn't grab her--and eyed her father. "Your kid," he said, and her father started laughing again.
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And fierce. But that's to be expected.
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