Stavanger Bay give in to me

@Doe ♥ The song he is humming is Give In to Me.

Admittedly, Szymon was a little worse for the wear, but with good reason — held carefully within his muzzle were the three gyrfalcon eggs that he had managed to secure for Doe. The scratches and pecks that littered his face and shoulders and the jagged set of scrapes on his right foreleg were shallow enough and would heal in due time. He traipsed toward the shoreline, pleased and untroubled, setting the eggs in the sand beside the mud shark he had caught. The venomous spines had already been carefully dispatched, but he couldn’t help boasting of his catch to the little Witch Doctor before gifting it to his brother — it was a prize that would have brought Szymon honor even in Warsaw. For himself and Doe, Szymon managed to catch a snapper and a sculpin — it was, perhaps, pure selfishness that he took the easy way out instead of catching something warm-blooded; but truth be told, he preferred saltwater fish to freshwater, and tracking and hunting something would take too long. He didn’t want to leave his prizes for long — and he didn’t want to wait anymore before summoning Doe.

Calling to her would draw attention that Szymon didn’t want. Thinking quickly, he found a small intertidal pool that would have no outlet until high tide came — and he gently placed the spiny dogfish, the snapper, and the sculpin therein, rolling the eggs with his nose and kicking sand over them. Then he set out looking for her, humming a wordless tune to himself as he slunk through the territory, the tip of his tail twitching habitually and the cant of his head slunk somewhat furtively below the crest of his sharp, angular shoulders. He tried a deeper version of her piping “ka-kayi!” and found the result to be rather flat — his voice was meant for deeper waters and slower crescendos. He kept his steady humming as he poked his head into the den she used as a cache — too small for Szymon, which made him happy in an absurd way. Perhaps it was the fact that he was notably smaller than his brothers.