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Red Brian took the seal maiden [br]to his house further along the shore.

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They drank wine from seashells [br]and slept wrapped in fishing nets

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and before long, she was his wife

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and in her happiness forgot even [br]her first home, the waves, for a time.

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The following spring they had a son.

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He was born with a sealskin [br]wrapped lightly around him like a coat.

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Apart from that, he looked [br]like any other human child.

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The seal maiden hid the sealskin [br]before anybody could see it.

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"I'm surely tied to the earth now," the seal maiden [br]whispered as she looked at the baby boy.

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She wondered how much [br]seal blood was in the baby.

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She held her ear to the small chest [br]to listen for the ocean in his heartbeat.

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There it was, a whoosh from the depth.

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No one else would hear it, [br]only her, and the baby himself.

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The seal maiden rarely went [br]along the shore at night now.

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All her time was spent with the baby, [br]feeding and washing and singing to him.