Wheeling Gull Isle immunity, long overdue

for @Dinah!

quietly, the boy regarded the new ones. he could not comprehend that to them, he was the new one.

but he did understand what it meant to be disregarded. their lack of interest dredged up memories that should have drowned when he was carried over in the water cradle; memories of what the birth mother had done.

he shied away from the bright mouth of the den, for the moment at least alone to contemplate what it all meant.