Yesterday, 10:41 PM
Girl crouches before him, licking the tall forearm and lovingly nosing his belly. Tailtip and ears flash high in the wind.
Tata stands in an aura of light, for the sun glimmers on the dark guard hairs and he seems to glow. The air is cold and she pours her breath against his ankle where it warms her face. He always gives instructions on what Axsinu must and must not do. She has learned that some sea mammals pose a mortal danger, and others less so. Among them are skinny whales, whose good fat and skin could be harvested, but whose thin meat must be thrown only to shaahk, because it may result from an illness. She has learned that smaller fish yield leaner flesh, and that larger ones are often more trouble than they are worth. But she has not encountered seal since migrating back to the black coast with Ana and Tata.
So this jaw is a novelty, spread in halves now between stubby paws for careful observation. And best admired from a distance! She does not want these teeth turned against her!
“Oh!” The wonderment is quiet but plain— how can one be a seal and a lion? The ebbing tide leaves a small stretch of open water between ice floes where Asxinu peers timidly.
“Do lion seals hunt us, Tata? Like sharks? And black fish?”
Tata stands in an aura of light, for the sun glimmers on the dark guard hairs and he seems to glow. The air is cold and she pours her breath against his ankle where it warms her face. He always gives instructions on what Axsinu must and must not do. She has learned that some sea mammals pose a mortal danger, and others less so. Among them are skinny whales, whose good fat and skin could be harvested, but whose thin meat must be thrown only to shaahk, because it may result from an illness. She has learned that smaller fish yield leaner flesh, and that larger ones are often more trouble than they are worth. But she has not encountered seal since migrating back to the black coast with Ana and Tata.
So this jaw is a novelty, spread in halves now between stubby paws for careful observation. And best admired from a distance! She does not want these teeth turned against her!
“Oh!” The wonderment is quiet but plain— how can one be a seal and a lion? The ebbing tide leaves a small stretch of open water between ice floes where Asxinu peers timidly.
“Do lion seals hunt us, Tata? Like sharks? And black fish?”