A long time ago a petite boy and girl stood up to their calves in the icy cold waters of the Never Ending Sea with nothing more than a rickety old boat and a few sacks full of clothing and food. The boy wrapped his stick-like arms around himself in desperation to shelter them from the biting wind. However, a shudder still weaved its way up his spine as he began to push the vessel farther out of the shallow cover surrounded by dizzily high cliffs stained with ashes. Crimson Cliffs was located at the southernmost point on the overly large wet rock known as Krieger. The boy shuddered once more, though this time it wasn’t from the cold.
His hazelnut eyes flickered over to the sandy shore just a few paces behind him. The sand, which was once …show more content…
Unlike the mostly ugly and dull vomit greens and mud browns found throughout Coda’s village the color of hers appeared to match the very depths of the ocean, a brilliant black with little streaks of blue if you dared to get close enough. Waves of curiosity, passion, and determination churned beneath their cold and mysterious exterior. They were a very prominent feature on the girl’s oddly pale face and complemented her auburn hair which was currently blowing behind her in the wind like a burning inferno.
In a word Coda could describe her as beautiful. Of course, Coda figured that all girls were pretty in comparison to any of the boys found on Krieger, but Arden seemed to have taken the cake. It was too bad that she considered said beauty to be a curse. However, this didn’t mean that she was unaware of how to use said curse to its full potential being the sly character she was.
As his thoughts moved onto the numerous times the other had used their looks in order to get out of harsh punishments after she had pulled a particularly nasty prank, he failed to hear the loud splash followed by the water parting as a figure stalked up to him. It was only when he was jerked upwards by a fistful of the front of his pale brown tunic that he came to terms with the situation he was in. Arden Kris was known for many things, but patience failed to exist in her vocabulary unless there was a ‘im’ at the beginning of
His hazelnut eyes flickered over to the sandy shore just a few paces behind him. The sand, which was once …show more content…
Unlike the mostly ugly and dull vomit greens and mud browns found throughout Coda’s village the color of hers appeared to match the very depths of the ocean, a brilliant black with little streaks of blue if you dared to get close enough. Waves of curiosity, passion, and determination churned beneath their cold and mysterious exterior. They were a very prominent feature on the girl’s oddly pale face and complemented her auburn hair which was currently blowing behind her in the wind like a burning inferno.
In a word Coda could describe her as beautiful. Of course, Coda figured that all girls were pretty in comparison to any of the boys found on Krieger, but Arden seemed to have taken the cake. It was too bad that she considered said beauty to be a curse. However, this didn’t mean that she was unaware of how to use said curse to its full potential being the sly character she was.
As his thoughts moved onto the numerous times the other had used their looks in order to get out of harsh punishments after she had pulled a particularly nasty prank, he failed to hear the loud splash followed by the water parting as a figure stalked up to him. It was only when he was jerked upwards by a fistful of the front of his pale brown tunic that he came to terms with the situation he was in. Arden Kris was known for many things, but patience failed to exist in her vocabulary unless there was a ‘im’ at the beginning of