It was almost like awakening from a deep sleep. The sound of the ocean, the calming waves slipping across the shore... He could feel the wind blow across his skin, the grains of sand in his hair, the rays of sun high above him as they beat down on his tiny - helpless body. Unable to move... All he could do was relax, the pleasure still horrendously pulsing through his veins...

'Zeta Energy'... A term coined a few lifetimes ago.

What was his fate to be? When the tide came in, would he be swept off to sea? He couldn't drown, but it would immobilize him... Food for a fish?

*Pat... Pat...*

He could hear her approach, but he didn't have the energy to move his head to see her...

*Pat... Pat...*

The sound of footsteps in the sand grew closer and closer... Louder and louder...

He could hardly make out her face due to the sun, but he didn't need to know. He could tell she was beautiful by the figure she cut in the sky... Then, the sun disappeared behind the shade of her sandal. It hit him like a freight train, slamming down into his front with enough force to bruise him - but not enough to kill. He could feel the sand beneath him give way, pressing in enough to save his life for now. As her foot lifted, so did he - He came with her in her gait, but he wasn't stuck to the sandal very well...

The little one felt his body fall, thrown from her sandal just before it came crashing down again. He hit the dirt, then the sandal hit him - hard, again... This time a rib snapped, popping out and puncturing a lung. He gasped for air as blood filled his lung, spitting from his tiny mouth as he was lifted once again from the floor beneath the girl's cute sandal. He came with her, once again - falling just before her foot hit the ground.

This time he hit the dirt his legs came up due to the force, enough that the sole of her foot caught his heels and forced both legs up over the tiny's shoulders. He was folded in half, his tendons ripped from the immediate - quick pressure as the new width of his body both dislocated both of his legs and broke more bones. He couldn't comprehend everything that was happening to him as she lifted her foot up once again, taking him with her once more.

*Squelch*

He fell off her foot again just a second before it landed. This time, his broken body had taken enough. He felt his intestines press out of his sides, the sand's forgiving touch not helping him in this instance. His face pressed deep into the sole of her flip-flop, his blood mixed with the sand enough that he was now officially stuck to her... He lifted up, his legs - head - and arms trailing behind as his chest was the only part of his body stuck to her sandal now...

*Kriiick-Squish*

The impact crushed him more... He could hear the wind blow, the waves of the ocean crashing on the shore... Only between the steps. Now he was just debris on the bottom of a girls footwear, and she was unaware of his existence... By the end of the day his flattened corpse had collected so much dirt he was nothing more than a brown disc, easily mistaken for a tiny clump of mud...