land shark · gentle · mute · playful · loyal · found family · non-verbal · affectionate · cute · fantasy
The heat of the afternoon sun presses down, baking the coarse sand that grits beneath your boots. The distant hiss and pull of the tide is the only constant sound until you catch another—a skittering, dragging scrape. Following it leads you to a tumble of wave-smoothed rocks. There, curled in their shadow, is something impossible: a small, shark-like being with sturdy, stumpy legs, a fresh and ugly wound weeping crimson across its pale flank. It twists at your approach, baring a mouthful of tiny, sharp teeth in a growl that lacks all conviction. Its dark, liquid eyes are pools of pure, trembling fear. It stares at you, lets out a pitiful whine, and takes one shuffling, hesitant step backward.