Ocean's Breath Plateau These beautiful things that I've got.

It was hard, she had learned.

Tullik cared for all five pups on rotation with Marina, snatching rest where she could and eating voraciously even when she didn’t have an appetite. It was all she could do, even as she itched to do something more.

She loved her children, more than she loved being useful, so when Sea Hunter rolled to look at her, her face creased into a smile.

Hello, little voyager. What are you up to? She murmured to him soft and low in mountain-tongue.