Ocean's Breath Plateau moon water

there was only the sound of the sea then, as boy retreated and the seal hunter turned weary guilted gaze to the ground.
"akiak. if you are hungry the seal hunters will feed you. your welcome in my lodge, among the other pups, stands now."
slowly he rose, all fatherly instincts shouting as he trailed back the way he had come. it was not right to leave the boy, but it would not be right to drag him from beneath the sea stones and take him where he did not wish to be.
a kelp-wrapped bundle of small fish and shelled clams would appear near akiak's den before the sun departed.