Title: red sky in the morning
Rating: G
Media: Fic
Character: Nami
Word count: 300
Prompt: Morning
Nami and the sea – the last tenant of her shattered faith.
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Seagulls calling stirred her subconscious. Dreaming, she watched them fly by, soaring into the salt-tanged air and infinity. As her mind filtered those last images, she turned in bed, raising her head from the warm pillow for just long enough to look out the porthole and consider the breaking day.
The rain had cleared and the morning sun pushing stripes of scarlet and whipped spoonfuls of pink across the cloud-free sky.
Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning.
Red sky at night, shepherds delight.
It would rain again by sundown.
Nami cast her watchful eyes across the glassy surface of the calm ocean. To the others it was a path, an obstacle, a hazard even – to her it was a living map, a riddle laced with hidden messages, clues, hints to the secrets of this amazing place. The waves were smooth on one side and slightly rippled on the other, showing where two currents met under the deceptive calm of the surface. A whole world existed just out of reach, a world where they were on the outside, living on the tiny rim of pink at the edges of a limitless blue-water sky.
If she opened her window, the breeze would caress her face – bringing whispers of flowers from islands they had left behind. She could see from the blown spume of the waves the direction of the wind, the strength, even where it would take her if she could take to her wings and fly… soaring on the currents and letting the weather be her lighthouse, her mentor, her guide. It told her when to sleep, when to celebrate and when to turn her face away from the storm.
Every morning it spilled its heart to her and every night it rocked her to sleep.
Her silent, faithful, nakama.
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