Hidden Away
Beneath them are the vivid orange-brown and siennas of wrack-weeds, the violet of mussel-beds, dead-white sand, and water through which one sees down to the bottom, as though pale green bottle-glass, to where starfish and big spiny urchins of pink and purple rest upon the broad leaves of the sea-tangle.
Inhaling deeply, Serafina could not believe the beauty of the scene before her, so much so that her heart jumped to life in her chest, resuming its lively rhythmic beat. She wanted to walk on the sand, feel her toes beneath the water.
Reentering the confines of her bedroom, she didn't see her guard at first, and looked around her as if her eyes had opened for the first time. She took in the i