Bearclaw Valley parasitic

taktuq.

it was hard to form her mouth around, but in her heart she knew who this was.

mother snow bear.

different than all her other mother bears, but the trademark kindness that stamped all as mother bear was present. this one even lowered to the ground and parousia wasted no time in toddling forward fast. deprived of warmth and hungrier than she had been even earlier.

parousia did not think about how she had not heard any siblings in some time, about how the original mother bear had seemingly faded.

she would worm her away against the side of mother snow bear, as if she might find herself under the woman entirely.

dunno.

it was — or had been, maybe. but she had never been this far, had never seen this much.