Redhawk Caldera tadpoles

teya sprang up. "good! good! hard to hold, yeah?" she laughed with jubilant pride. "you fast, bronte. very fast." after a moment's sparkle of powerful joy, she motioned back to the water. "i show you some tips."
she taught her daughter how to stand in the water, on light pawpads and legs loose, shoulders and hips holding strain until the strike down. then weight shifted forward, then back again as a counterbalance to the thrashing fish.
she pulled two from the lake with this method, then slid out of the shallows with a chuff, "now you, hm? go ahead!"