Expensive Mistakes

In the distance, a swath of light shimmered. A wondrous array of colors, lighting up the ocean on the horizon. The light twisted and moved, pulsating as the colors shifted, twinkling like the sky above. Slowly the colors moved left and right, dimming before brightening up once more. There was a flash of deep, forest green before poka-dots of yellow appeared only to be replace with a flashing crimson and swirls of a deep, calming blue. And then the lights stopped and the hunt began. She stalked up towards the cliff with years of practice, moving slowly as to not create wake.