When spring comes and the birds return to the island Tainor and Lurai build a nest in the tree where they were born and soon have two beautiful babies. Karana finds a young gull that has fallen on the beach and cares for his broken leg and he too joins the growing household. Karana is happy with her yard full of her animal children. She wonders if her sister and Kimki are married and have children yet.
Karana gathers abalone as she begins to prepare again for the Aleuts to come and one day, while she is out on the reef, she sees a herd of otters playing. She is so sure that one is Mon-a-nee that she holds out a fish toward him and before she can take a breath he has taken.....
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