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I couldn’t stop thinking about the babies even as I fed the animals the next morning. It warmed my heart to think about Esme and her children cozy and warm in the cave.
But it made my mission all the more urgent. I’d already been motivated to fight on Esme’s behalf, but now the stakes were higher.
I held a little skunk in my arms as I tried to get it to eat, and it just reminded me of baby Basi falling asleep in my lap.
I was really a sucker for baby animals. Or animals of any kind, if I was being honest.
Right now I had several late summer babies to care for, though the season was winding down so I hadn’t had any new patients since I’d started investigating the murder. It was just as well, because the animals I did have were a handful on top of going around and interviewing suspect
