"You ought to teach it a lesson," she agrees, raising a brow. After a moment, she glances back out at the lapping waves, sun glinting off the water and assaulting her eyes. Nate seems a great deal brighter in the light of the sun, his gray-blue coat more radiant. "I've got more to show you. C'mon!"
Trotting ahead, careful not trip on any jagged edges of frozen crystals like her companion, she can see a mass of dusky blubber in the distance. It's a sight she's known since her youth, their bark all too familiar. The seals moved like beached whales, crowding each other on the shoreline. Glancing back at him, she awaits his reaction, hopes for one, really.
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