Sea Lion

I wanted to do this for a while. Throughout the book Journey of Desire there is a story about a sea lion, and I want to incorporate this story into my Writer's Corner, so for the next several days this will be what the Writer's Corner will be dedicated to. I promise new and original work from me will return soon, but this story is profound, so stay tuned for each new entry. Thanks and Enjoy...

Once upon a time there lived a sea lion who had lost the sea.
He lived in a country known as the barren lands. High on a plateau, far from any coast, it was a place so dry and dusty that it could only be called a desert. A kind of coarse grass grew in patches here and there, and a few trees were scattered across the horizon. But mostly, it was dust. And sometimes wind, which together make one very thirsty. Of course, it must seem strange to you that such a beautiful creature should wind up in a desert at all. He was, mind you, a sea lion. But things like this do happen.
How the sea lion came to the barren lands, no one could remember. It all seemed so very long ago. So long, in fact, it appeared as though he had always been there. Not that he belonged in such an arid place. How could that be? He was, after all, a sea lion. But as you know, once you have lived so long in a certain spot, not matter how odd, you come to think of it as home.