Ocean's Breath Plateau thorn boy

looking for pups!

there was much happening, and marina's health had not improved.
he went then to gather the opposite of those things her brother had said would help, counting those plants which sickened his wife.
so many.
disheartened, he left off his search and wandered to do something at which he was skilled: hunting cormorant in the piled rocks at the edge of the water. the tall birds gleamed a glossy blue-black. their skins would make a fine curtain.

Puffin, too, had noticed her mother's swift decline. One moment she was home and whole and all was well — and in the next moment that dark cloud of sickness had returned to hang over them all. Or so it felt.

Still Puffin tried to be a source of cheer for her parents. She bounced after Chakliux with no particular intention, at least until the pale flash of his tail caught her eye. While he eyed the cormorants for a hunt, Puffin crept up behind him in a hunt of her own. A high war cry burst from her as she leapt for his tail.

which one of his children now crept upon him? before chakliux could turn to confront them with a laugh, puffin shouted out a whoop so loud that the entire flock took to the air in a buffeting cloud of squawking black.
his leap backward might have knocked the girl over; he turned as the birds settled far out on the sea, indignant. "look! you have scared them all with your great seal hunter shout!" he praised puffin, amused. "you followed me a while. very silent. very good."