Stavanger Bay Den-mother Doe

Amayo sighed as she looked upon the stricken child. The lethargy and confusion that she'd sensed in the girl on the beach had not left her, and Amayo was beginning to wonder if it ever would. She feared for her master, if it was so. For when her own life had not seemed worth living, she'd fled from her home and all that she knew.

Amayo took pity on the child, but Atoll sought to serve her master.

"When you have enough for today," she said gently, splitting the difference between the two duties - not completely at war, but certainly tense with each other - "you will have all you ever need. Do you know what that means, Sharky?"

She shifted herself near the girl and stretched out her neck to offer her a soft embrace. "It means that as long as you can get through right now, you can get through anything. And the beauty of life is that nothing ever stays the same. This means that joy is often brief, but also that all pain and sadness will pass," Amayo explained, warming up to the subject. "We just have to get through the moment, ten seconds at a time. Do you think you can do that?"