Wheeling Gull Isle another roadblock in our way

She did not, however, get the same tender treatment, and it rankled her slightly. Not that she was expecting to be treated like his daughter—but perhaps it was some retribution for her running away on the beach. They remained close, but there was a chasm between them.

A chasm in which the cries of their dead and yet unborn children rang out.

I'm sure that would b-be all right, Maegi replied, trying to keep her focus on Meerkat rather than Mou's ministrations. If I remember correctly, Nǚwū is the leader's d-daughter. One of them, anyway. We can ask for you.

After all, it was only a short stay.

And yet the sandy color of her pelt had Maegi recalling Fennec, and with it, the undeniable truth that Fennec belonged to them. And now Mou had given their names—

The sooner they returned to their obscurity on this island, the better.