Odder2
creatures seen from below as "long, dark silhouettes with webbed _____ and muscular _____"
feet, tails
is a predator sometimes shocked by his own ______
speed
a character hear her friend's strangled cry, and turns to see the shark has nipped her friend's ______
tail
just the hint of ___ turn a predator into pure muscle and instinct
blood
a shark release his prey; "It's all fur and bone - and so much hair! - and not even a hint of _____"
blubber
a character head for shore, knowing that blood in the water is an ____; move as little as necessary, conserve energy
Invitation
fur the stuff of legend, and those puppy eyes pull like a magnet; "Remember though: Those jaws are ______ cruel"
steel trap
gulls cluster and gossip, enjoying the chaos, because chaos means dropped ____
food
hands gentle and the gloves are familiar as one says, "Hello, old ______"
friend
a cage smell ______ and unnatural, but the character remembers the scent well
antiseptic
Part Two flash back _____ years earlier
three
"She might well have been an inflatable toy. Her magical fur made her buoyant as a ___"
cork
a mother only able to dive for food when her pup was looped in long strands of ___
kelp
grooming mean ___ and blowing, and teasing and separating, and combing and _____, and tidying and spiffing
fluffing, licking
a mother know she needed to teach how to use ___ for meal prep
rocks
babies born with teeth and ready to swim as soon as they shed their life-jacket baby ___
___
flying dreams where they ride the thermals like ____
hawks
sometimes having shivery nightmares where all their ___ has vanished
fur
a young character hate when Mom left; "life should be nothing but warmth and milk, cuddling and play, on demand, ____ hours a day"
twenty-four
a daughter become separated from her ____ during a rough storm
mother
a rescued animal endlessly fed and groomed, and measured and tested, as if she were a puzzle they needed to solve
puzzle
the ones caring for a captive mystifying: their paws had stubby ____ and their bodies were practically ____
tentacles, bald
a question linger: What had happened to 156's ____?
mother
animals listed to be "keystones;" they are nature's ____, holding habitats together
glue
are strands of rough fabric used as a substitute for kelp (the kind at the _____ _____, sliding over windshields, bathed in bubbles)
car wach