Sorry, I have been busy with school and homework stuff. Thank you for the critiques, I'll try not to make a Mary Sue?? Anywho here's the second chapter, don't forget to review ;)
Just a note. I didn't realize that her name is close to Mariel's..I just like the name.
Marian shook her head and thought fiercely, No this is not the end! I will not die out here!
She set her concentration on untying her paws. She attacked it with her teeth.
" Phwwt! Sea salt!" She said as she spit it out and attacked the rope again with vigor.
Every time she attacked the rope, it began to loosen. She tugged at it with determination. Finally it was loose enough to get one of her paws out. Then she worked on getting the other one out.
Once the other paw was out she started to swim a little bit to keep from getting chilled. She thought she saw a blob way out in the distance.
Yes, yes! Land! Marian thought excitedly.
She swam toward the blob, which was slowly getting bigger. Her mind wandered to when she was little.
Marian was two and was the most curious babe. She walked up to her mother Gauchee with a little trinket that she had found.
" Mommy, mommy. Look at what I found." She squealed with delight, holding a picture in her small paws.
" Oh yes? What is it sweetie?" Gauchee said as she took the picture out of the toddler's paws.
Gauchee looked at the picture with interest then she turned quite white and sat down shakily.
Marian noticed her mother was acting oddly. " Mommy, what's wrong?"
"Oh, honey, its nothing, but could you go find your daddy Brome please?" Gauchee asked still holding the picture.
"Oh yeah! Sure thing mommy." Marian said as she ran out of the little cottage. Noonvale had been her home since she was born. Usually she would stop and smell the roses, but she was on a mission.
" Daddy?"
" Yes my little rosebud?" Brome said laughing heartily as he picked her up and put her on his shoulders.
" Mommy wants to talk to you, right now."
" Okay." brome said as they made their way to the cottage.
He saw Gauchee and his face frowned from concern. " What's the matter?"
" Brome, look at what Marian found this morning." Gauchee said as she handed him the picture.
He took the picture from her hastily and looked very tired. He rubbed his eyes and the picture fell from his paws on to the floor.
Marian looked at the two of them with confusion, and picked up the picture of the floor where her dad had dropped it. She couldn't see anything wrong with it. There were two mice on it. One was a girl; obviously her mother, and one mouse was a boy; obviously her father. The two mice were holding hands.
Marian looked around to find her parent's conversing in low tones. She heard little snippets of the conversation.. ".. we have to tell her Brome.."
" I know.." Brome said as he looked at Marian, who was looking at him with confusion plain on her little face.