Ocean's Breath Plateau otter wing

the appendage he'd latched upon was stripped from him, and so sirmiq let loose the wails of a child without their pacifier. how dare! who took what was his?! a cry to the nearest sibling, a whimper to another. if he were capable of hearing, he might have caused himself to go deaf. 

but he could not hear. not the names of his linage, not the story of his father, not sneeze of his brother or the shriek of his own voice. he knew only that what he wanted was not there anymore, and incapable of doing much more than whining about it, sirmiq would bawl until he found the next of his siblings to gnaw on.