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They might, Sequoia said, but this one looks a little too tired for any swimming. Skaigona asked if there were more of them, and Sequoia could only shrug. She didn't see any in the immediate vicinity, though that didn't mean there weren't any around.

As Sequoia stood there, looking at Skaigona. In the time since the girl's mother had left, the piebald caretaker had grown close to the two little ones. It was a different relationship than she had with her biological children, but she found herself considering both Skaigona and Worripa children of her own, too. And while it was not the story she wished was being told, it was one that she was loathe to give up.