Oystercatcher Tide Pools why do they ignore the little female one

all welcome, but possibly @The Listener can find her?

vesper sat at the edge of a tide pool, inspecting her reflection. she had never been truly on her own before, at least not for so long a stretch of time, and for the first time in her life she felt free. it was a relief, but also terrifying— fending for herself was as exhausting as it was illuminating. the darkling had spent her entire childhood being whatever she thought everyone else in her life needed her to be.

a kind of mother to blueberry. a loyal daughter to mou and maegi. the responsible older sibling that tried to make their new lives work, over and over again.

but who was vesper when left to her own devices?