Whimsies by Grundy

Walrus

Andreth peered at the illustration. The creature looked beyond odd to her eyes, almost too strange to be believed. Two enormous teeth jutted down from its mouth, but at the same time, it had jaunty whiskers. Its front legs ended not in something more like an extended duck foot, while it appeared to have no back legs at all.

“These are real?” she asked, trying to keep the skepticism from her voice.

“They are only found near the Sea,” Aegnor explained. “I am afraid that unlike most creatures, they do not love my people. We hunted them on the Ice.”