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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once, and not too long ago at all, a great grey seal called Solanna gave birth to a girl calf seal. She named her Solanna the Younger, and no seal was ever so proud of its calf.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'd think none of the rest of us ever had a calf before.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The old ones cackled on the rocks as they watched Solanna the Elder flick the baby seal with her nose.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were only jealous because the bull seals no longer fought over them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They spat fishbones at the other seals and hit out with their weak old feet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solanna the Elder didn't even notice them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All day and night she spent her time minding Solanna the Younger
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suckling her, finding her the softest pieces of crab, and the sweetest seagrasses to eat
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mackerel that wriggled between her teeth as she fed them to the young calf.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At night in the caves, Solanna the Elder spread out on a wide ledge with Solanna the Younger underneath her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes a mermaid or two would come to admire the baby seal and sing her lullabies in the dark hushed cave
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when the mermaids didn't come, Solanna the Elder would sing her calf to sleep
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for seals have very fine singing voices.