One day Saeborn was walking along the beach when he heard the sound of waves crashing onto the water. He realized he must have stumbled into the eastern coast. He suddenly was very hungry and there was plenty of crabs to eat. So he went and grabbed some wood and pine needles from the trees arround him and some rocks he found on the beach for a fire. Then he made a ring of rocks and filledit with pine needles and logs. Then he sat there for a wile trying to set the needles on fire. Then he got smoke and realized he got a fire going. Then he went and got a crab and boiled it in a bowl shaped rock he had found and used the ocean water to boil it. then after he boiled a crab he used a rock and cracked the crab shell open and began to eat the meat. Then he fell asleep on the beach and was awakened to a nudgeing on his ribs...

There are days when the house cannot keep a child happy, so one sends them to the yard, when the yard cannot they go to the park and when a park cannot...A parent takes them to the beach. Such was this case, a mother of two walked as her children ran along the beach laughing and playing on the sandy ground while she just enjoyed the walk content to not have any cares at that moment save looking after her young. Her son, the eldest at age eight, began to chase the seagulls and crabs and later decided to make a sand castle and was doing a fine job of it.

Her daughter, aging four and the youngest, was more inclined to explore the strange new land called "Eastern Coast." Unlike her brother, who had been to the beach before, she was interested in the big puddle of water that moved. She toddled off towards the water, holding her right index finger in her mouth as she went and touched the water, however there was a wave and it caught her hand. She squeeled in glee and surprise as she backed off. "Mommy, the wabber mobed on my hawnd" she called to Ruth who sighed and smiled. "It is called the "Ocean" Nichelle. The water moves to the beach in "Waves" she said. The four year old was not expected to understand, and did not get the sentence past "water moves". Instead she turned and looked at a white bird and decided to make it a friend and began chasing it.

But as all four year olds do, she found out that her new friend could fly and she plopped on the beach and pouted untill a strange flat red creature moved beside her. Getting on all fours she followed the strange sideways moving animal interested in it, deciding that this would be her new friend. Ruth following behind her called out but the child was too interested in the crab to hear her as she continued to follow her new companion. Suddenly it dug into the sand and she lost it but soon found a strange man on the beach asleep. She looked at him funny and poked him on the side, trying to figure out what he was. Ruth called over to her daughter, "Nichelle don't stray so far, come back here." she said just as the man woke up. Nichelle was in shock that the man had woke up, she quickly decided that going back to her mom was a good idea and ran towards Ruth, but she stumbled and fell into the sand hard.

Getting up she found she was covered in sand with a scratch on her arm, and as most four year olds do when they are covered in sand, hurt, or both; she plopped down on the ground threw her head back and procedded to cry her head off. She groaned, having gone through the whole tears thing millions of times before she put her head into her hand and looked back at her son. "Curtis stay there" she said and then walked over to Nichelle who still had tears to shead. "Its okay...Here let mommy see." she said as she brushed the sand off of her daughter and then rubbing the scratch, healed her daughter. Stooping down she picked her up and turned to the elf on the ground, "I am sorry if my daughter bothered you sir. Nichelle tell the man you are sorry." The small girl, tears still on her cheeks looked at him, "I sowwy" she said then turned to hold her mothers neck, only the man could see the expression of "Do I really have to do this again?" on her face. Clearly Ruth had been through this act at least a few dozen times before.

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Kiesu lie up against another tree, once again thinking of where his journey's would lead him. The calm rushing of the waves upon the beach soothed his ears, mind, heart, and soul as the calmness carressed the landscape. So many places were calming, but not by much. This was a place where people could come and with the way he was, with the way his was born, he would be fleeing yet another calm place. As he though about this he lowered his hood over his horns more and gazed from beneath his hood, peering for anybody. A while down the shore he noticed a man, a woman, and and two children. He though they may be a family but he still could not trust anybody but a creature.

He changed positions on the tree and kept his back to these people as he concentrated on the shoreline to his right. The Sound of the waves once against carressed the essence of his being. How ever hated by most it was. His life had been dictated by his birth. and his early years were but a nightmare. No abuse by his parents until his mother, a holy angel, fell and succumbed to the evil. He quickly changed his though of this hated memory back to where his journey would take him. What he was thinking about his mother had been changed, back to the earlier years in his life when she was a calm, loving spirit, and what his father must have looked like. A tear ran down his cheek as he remembered never meeting his father who had died before he could remember. All he could remember about him, was how much his mother loved him.

With his ribs still being sore from his previous sucessful battle against Morgo. He quickly awoke to a child pokeing him in the ribs and turned to see her running to a woman. Not feeling like battleing her because he was resting for the battle between Morgo and Saeborn against Ethari and his friend. He looked above him to see his spider had made a web and was asleep. Saeborn woke his spider and it crawled onto his shoulder. Saeborn stood up and almost fell to the ground from being asleep so long. He quickly stretched and walked over to the woman and her children. Saeborn then introduced himself to the woman and he explained why he was sleeping on the beach because he had no home and he was preping for the battle with Ethari. He saw the little girl crying and offered to let her hold his spider but then remembering that her mother probly would not like that he decided to ask her first. Before he let her say no he explained that the spider would not hurt a thing.

Kiesu looked and saw that it was the person he met in the Swamp of Shadows. He still did not show himself so that the family would fear. He turned and went back to his original position, not worrying of a complete panic attack from the family. He closed his eyes and listened to the conversation.

Ruth held Nichelle as the small girl clinged to her neck almost suffocating the mother of two as the four year old wanted to be babbied from being hurt. Ruth on the other hand was quite ready to say. "get off of me and go see your brother" but when she tried to let go Nichelle clinged tighter to her. The elf then got up and picked up a spider from the ground, he looked at Ruth seemingly upset that his nap was interupted but alright nonetheless. He introduced himself as Saeborn, and explained why he was asleep on the beach. She smiled, "I understand but it still does not give my child the right to poke at anything she sees fit to." she replied

The man offered to allow the child to pet his spider but Nichelle only whined and tried to pull away from it. Ruth dropped Nichelle on the ground and the child hid behind the dress she was wearing, frightined by the spider. "Sorry, she acutally enjoyes insects and finds them playfull. I guess today she is just being a crybaby. Its almost time for her nap as well." she said as the girl sat down and played with the sand. Nichelle yawned and pulled on her mothers dress. "Yes?" she asked Nichelle looked at her, "Da mobing wabber wabs to mobe cwobser to us." she said pointing to the ocean waves as the tide moved in and out. Ruth rolled her eyes, "I see that Nichelle. Now go and play with your brother." she said trying to control the tireness in her voice. Nichelle immediately got up and toddled off towards her brother.

She sighed, "I do not get how I stay sane with these two after their father passed away." she said breathing out frustrated.

"Children... they seem like little pixies." Kiesu thought to himself with a smile. Several times in his life he thought of actually just stopping in a city other than just stopping at an inn or such. Kiesu was mostly isolated,lone in his travels except for the people he met along the way. "Too many things I need to do with my life, not enough willpower to do something about it." He gave a smirk to himself as he made some hand movements to summon a small shadow. His mana had incresed, instead of the small creeping shadow which stayed flat against substances this one had form. it stood about a foot high in front of him. "Hmm, what do you think? You may be a manifistation of mana but you should have a conciousness." Kiesu said to the small shadow-creature as he looked out to the ocean. The shadow sat down on kiesus calves and looked out to the Ocean as well, Kiesu mainly pondered about the mana he used on this intelligent creature of darkness.

Saeborn chuckled as the child was playing in the sand. Saeborn took the spider and let it lose in its sticky web. Saeborn tok of his shoes and dug a hole in the sand dwith his feet. Remembering doing this as a child made him think about happy memories. Saeborn went into the water to get the wet sand off of his feet. when he returned to the shore he went to the woman and asked what had happened to her childrens father. As he was talking he saw a framiliar face just behind the woman in a thick grove of trees. Then he realized who it was and that it was the man he had met earlier in the swamp of shadows. Then he quickly looked back at the woman to make sure that he did not worry her.