Beyond the Keep - The Island
A ragged man lay in the sand. His skin was red-brown from the sun, his hair and beard were unkempt, his clothes, stiff from dried salt water, were nothing but rags. A shackle on his ankle chained him to a large rock. He was not moving, even as a seagull approached him. The gull pecked his hand, when there was no reaction the gull came closer. It was about to peck his face when the man's hands suddenly grasped the bird. The bird flailed its wings but the man weakly held on to it.