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Nanook cracked open a tired eye, roused by the wails of her children. Or child, more like it -- Sela and Iki squirmed with their own little squeaks and whimpers, but Taktuq's little garbles hit the air like her very own soliloquy.

The mother watched her daughter. From the way Taktuq wormed about, she concluded the child just didn't like being on her back -- which meant Nanook saw no obvious danger in letting her fuss around a little while longer. Could her daughter find a way out of her situation without her help? Nanook would watch the display a little while longer, as curious a scholar of life as she had ever been, and, if Taktuq couldn't right herself, only then would she reach in to flip her child around.