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She tugged at her cloak, trying to draw it tight and keep it from pulling away in the wind. Toggles. She needed toggles. The sort that were sewn in along the hem and twisted to keep the cloak from parting. Aydyn had grown up just outside of Candaceburg where snow was fleeting, almost rare, and had only started to become accustomed to the snows since leaving home. Here in Jaedaxia, the winter was the harshest she'd ever experienced...and she'd wondered how much worse it was going to get as the months plowed onward.
She scuffed her foot and started to turn, freezing and starting to feel a little numb at the nose and tips of her fingers and toes, covered though they were, when the sound caught at her, soft and delicate. She hesitated and glanced off towards the ocean, eyes narrowing a little as if to sharpen her own eyesight. As the turtles rose out of the water, dragging themselves across the wet sand, Aydyn drew in a breath and watched with interest. Turtles, excepting those found in freshwater water bodies, were not something she knew much about and sea turtles the most curious of all with their strange flippers and large bodies. But these were too small to be the rumored Zaratans, certainly.
Curious and always interested in something such as this, Aydyn picked her way along the edge of the cliff, glancing now and again at the turtles to see if they had moved away and minding her proximity towards the edge. Down she wandered until she had come down to the beach. She approached with eagerness, but was wary in minding her distance, not because she suspected them to be cruel or dangerous, but rather as to not scare them. She edged close enough as she could dare, wanting a close look at something she would have never before seen.
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