(quick fic) Patience

The sea at least is honest; it's the land that lies.

Gazing out from the soft slope at the edge of a red sandy cliff, Daniel could barely see the listing ship and could not make out the granite teeth that had abused her so cruelly.

The sun was beginning to rise, reaching out to touch the shadows of the cliff-base, between them they slicked the Sea with red.

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