The sun is surprisingly warm at her back, momentarily breaking through a suffocating layer of cloud to brighten winter-dulled sands and flicker restlessly across the white capped waves of the shore. Not so beautifully as the star-lit sky did hours before, she thinks, but still with admirable pizzazz, light shattering and winking from silver to gold across the waters roiling surface. Not that either of them could compare to the glamour of her late night encounter, that is. A sigh escapes black velvet lips. Like Pegasus himself, she thinks whimsically, come down from the heavens still swathed in galaxies and star dust, only better, as a woman.

A grin spreads across the mares preoccupied features as she continues to backtrack her way along the sands, retracing her steps from the evening before, dancing now, bouncing on her toes through the surf as she laughs beneath her breath, chanting.  ”Twinkle, twinkle, little star, Oh, I’d fuck you where you are! Up above the sky so high -” She hesitates, struggling to compose an adequate second line, but before any of the crude substitutions in her mind can be tested a high pitched keening stops her short. Ears cupped forward, she scans the beach for the source of the sound, eventually calling, ”Hello?”

The keening responds, taking on a more frenzied pitch. A few hundred meters away something writhes in the shallows. ”A whale?” The mare wonders aloud, approaching cautiously. ”No, a… dolphin?” It’s not any type of dolphin she’s ever seen before, but much too small to be a whale, even a juvenile one. The creature is mostly black with a large white patch on its belly that extends up either side of its rear half and a little dash of white across the dorsal fin. Its head seems shrunken, too small for its bulging body, but its mouth is certainly big enough, screeching even louder now that some strange land-creature has come near.
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”speak”
@Saoirse
The creature is a beached Dall's porpoise.