Ocean's Breath Plateau Cut out all the ropes and let me fall.

It warmed his heart to see the little ones laugh and play. Each took after their father in different ways, but Sea Hunter in particular had his voice. Taggak hummed a seal-hunting chant first sung by Waking Shark and passed on by Chakliux as he trotted through the surf towards the boy.

"Having fun?" he grinned, tail sending arcs of seawater as it waved happily behind him. By the time he arrived, Sea Hunter had finished his game. "Unlike us, the sea never gets tired." As if to demonstrate, Taggak waded deeper and let the waves lap his belly in rhythmic swells. It was important to recognise the limits of ones own body, though it seemed the boy had already begun to grasp such a concept.