Moonspear i just ate an entire seahorse!

Seal slept peacefully next to her Da. Day by day, and with her parents, Orca’s and Sialuk’s attentive care, her condition improved. No longer were the claw marks on her body bloody or inflamed. Now, they had begun to scab over and heal, even if she was still missing patches of fur. She slept lots and her appetite never waned.

She was curled neatly in a shallow impression on the Sveijarn-Corten ulaq’s dirt floor when a commotion stirred her awake. Her head lifted slowly, neck and body still sore, and her eyes were half lidded.

“A-ajei?” she slurred, surprised. “Frolic?!”

Suddenly, her big brown eyes became bright and tears began to bead at their corners like a new spring. She was overwhelmed with love and joy that her friends would visit!

“Ajei! Frolic!” she repeated, arms outspread to welcome them into a big group hug.