Moonspear telepath

It did hurt when Meerkat squeezed Seal’s paw, but her daughter did not flinch. She felt small tears bead in her own eyes as she watched her mother fight to keep her composure and clutched her paws together tightly.

Seal sniffed back a tear. “Yeah… I ken, in my heart, she’ll be back soon,” she agreed with glassy eyes. “Orca’s strong. A lot stronger than me. She’s okay. I know it.”

Seal took a shakey breath to steady herself and rubbed one of Meerkat’s arms.

“Come, let me show you what I have been working on. Then, I want to hear all about you, Da, and the Copse.”

Seal led her mother back to the Sveijarn-Corten ulaq where she had taken up residence. There, the small skin of a brown rabbit was laid out upon a flat rock, partly worked and prepped for tanning.