Eyes of lava searched the wide expanse before me. The river was wide and vast, I knew that it would lead to the ocean, but I wasn’t ready to see the ocean again. I was born of a land by the ocean, and I loved it, yes, but today was about the river, and the long tall grasses, the warm summer breeze. Everything about it just made me feel alive, and well, free. I stretched, lean legs out before me as I moved from one stretch to another, eyes slipping shut as I moved easily. I listened to the river as it rushes by me, seeming to be in a hurry, to go where, I wondered, I had no idea, but I was going the opposite way today. I wanted to be led closer to where it began, not where it ended.

I moved slowly, my lithe form disappearing at times within the tall lush grasses. I was not tall, I figured I was average, at best. Light in stature, I hid easily today. I added to the effect, dropping my head below the top level of the grass. Only to spring out of it, to see if I scared any of the wildlife that surrounded me. I frightened a few birds, and a weasel, I assumed it was. But nothing big, nothing interesting. I came to a large mouth in the river, watching it as it forked into a different direction. I was not ready to leave the long grasses, no. These were much, much too fun.

I found myself flopping into the grasses in a even-sloped area, not more than two yards away from the river’s edge. I yipped, a gleeful sound as I rolled around onto my back, my legs twitching up into the sky as I rolled. I rubbed my head on the sweet smelling grasses, still wet from the morning dew. Dawn had been but an hour, maybe two, ago, and it made for the best time to frolic in the grasses, though, your opinion may differ, this was mine. I had a complaisant soul, and I gave in to it more than I should, but I was raised that way, give everyone your all, and no one would harm you. Or so daddy said.

I could hear voices, slightly, in the background trying to speak to me, to get my attention, to show me ways to go along the river. But I didn’t want to go anywhere but where I was right now. Not yet. They spoke of the current growing stronger towards the north, and that it’d be much more fun, and adventurous to play there. I knew one of the voices wasn’t the most pleasant, at least, not the way it sounded to me, so I ignored it, merely going about my own day. I was not a medium, or physic. I was in touch with the spirit side of my own soul, leading me to hear what others weren’t able. I never spoke to anyone about it, and wasn’t planning on it today.