The Universe's Mixer

Each step was grueling, painful. But it was nothing compared to the stabbing intensity that was her heart. Every planned step brought her closer to her destination, closer to her end, and each one felt more liberating than the last despite the aching throb. She knew her destination, Ariel could see the place in her mind.

This was not her place. This strange city was not her home. The sea was where her heart was and despite any beaches that may lay attached to this foreign land, Ariel wanted to go where she was familiar and comfortable.

For too long she had visited the beaches of the jungle. She didn't care about dinosaurs, she paid no thought to any obstacles that might stand between her and her goal. She only knew she had to keep moving, and she would until her feet touched the sand.

Ariel paused only when she had stepped half way on to the bridge that connected the dinosaur land to the new one. A glance over a once-pale, now dirt covered shoulder and her blue eyes absorbed the sight for what she hoped to be the last time.

Finally she turned, turned her back on the city and that prospect of a life without a love in it.

Ariel made her way into the jungle and never again looked back.