Exile
Exile
“Safe behind a rock, he marvelled at the creature’s size. The biggest he’d seen so far, its body was covered in glossy blue-black skin. Whiskers grew from its snout and each flipper ended in a needle-sharp prong. Then there were the tusks, each was as long as a full grown man’s fore-arm and as thick; they reared up from each side of the sea-boar’s jaw.
Hearing his father’s tales had not prepared Ronnyn for the reality of these magnificent beasts. He glanced to Aravelle to see if she was equally ...impressed. She frowned, pushing tendrils of wind-blown copper hair out of her eyes. Between them lay the sack of tusks they’d already gathered. Wind whipped in from the sea, driving sand before it, stinging their bare legs and arms.
Ronnyn ignored the discomfort, concentrating on their father. The boars were surprisingly fast over short distances. The tusks their father hoped to collect lay on the beach not far from where the sea-boar sunned itself on the sand. During mating season, the males often gored each other to death.MoreLess
Hearing his father’s tales had not prepared Ronnyn for the reality of these magnificent beasts. He glanced to Aravelle to see if she was equally ...impressed. She frowned, pushing tendrils of wind-blown copper hair out of her eyes. Between them lay the sack of tusks they’d already gathered. Wind whipped in from the sea, driving sand before it, stinging their bare legs and arms.
Ronnyn ignored the discomfort, concentrating on their father. The boars were surprisingly fast over short distances. The tusks their father hoped to collect lay on the beach not far from where the sea-boar sunned itself on the sand. During mating season, the males often gored each other to death.MoreLess
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