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Submitted to Contest #232
The Ecstasy of Ice Nanuk shuffled away as the chopper’s blades receded. When she was a safe distance away, she slowed to a walk, swaying her powerful head and keeping her nose to the ground. She smelled things before she saw them. She could smell a seal on the ice from twenty miles away. She had the keenest nose of any creature on earth but she was far from the fastest; running any farther than a few hundred yards overheated her. Four inches of blubber and a dense double coat made the icy Beaufort Sea her bathtub, but her core temperature ...
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