You found me now and you heard my call

From her reaction, Luke understood that Osprey did not know Mordecai had been injured, but he thought nothing less of her for it. It was not for him to judge whether she should have known; there were simply too many variables to consider. The subject passed rather quickly when she proceeded to ask him about his biggest catch, and with a smile Luke was happy to share a tale or two.

"I'd give my tail to even see a sea-serpent or mermaid!" he laughed. "My biggest catch was a salmon as long as me! " He said, his face lighting up with the a storyteller's joy. "It took all I had to drag the thing to shore, but boy did I ever have a feed when I got him there!" Luke's tail beat back and forth on the ground, audibly thumping. Was he exaggerating? It was true that he had wrestled a big salmon out of a stream once when the bruiser was on his way to spawn, it just may not have been the full length of his body.

Luke sighed with fondness, remembering that day and many others like it. But he had a question of his own and turned to Osprey with a gentle look. "How are you feeling?"