Washed Away

"Whats happening!? Whats going on!?

Guru Wishy Washy woke with a start.

"Sir please stay still, I need to finish your hair if we're ever going to make to the gathering today."

White Coral stood over him plucking near by flowers from the shore and braiding them into his mane.

" Gathering? What Gathering?"

He raised one of his long brows and scratched at his thick white beard.

" The meeting about the cold front. Don't you remember? We were just talking about it."

"We were?"

" Mm-huh."

She agreed weaving branches under the flowers.

" A pony, I believe his name was Sea Knot, came in talking about the sea freezing over."

"Sea freezing? Preposterous! Where is the sea freezing?"

"Over there."

She gestured whimsically a little left of them to the growing heap of ice trailing along the shore.

"Oh!"

He said genuinely surprised.

He looked up to the sky and squinted at the dark ominous snow clouds above.

"Should we leave right now?"

He asked turning to Coral.

" Whenever is fine."

"Calm down Coral!"

He huffed shaking the snow from his tail.

"We'll go to the capital now if your going to be a grump about it.."

" Very well."

She slipped down into the water grabbing the seaweed rapped around the Guru and pulled him down.

He fell like a stone onto the back of his trusty sea turtle and they began the lengthy trail back to the capital.