Mama bear and her cub have been paddling for three days straight. Last year she swam three times that distance before she found solid ice.

The cub’s forelimbs seize, it growls, gargles and sinks.

Mama bear glances behind her, then keeps paddling.

 

— Bastian Espada

 

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