Hon-es’-te-ly…  I mean Really?  Not a struggle, not a care, they each are in the arms of Trail and his adopted son without so much as a concern?  Reminds me of a couple of hand raised lap-dogs… And Rusty, don’t be in denial, the “rest of the otters” have been flayed and skinned and stretched and scraped as their valuable pelts are on their way to market…  Some Trail version of Cruella DeVille, no doubt, bent on making an otter-skin coat…  but then it appears that there is a lively demand for such items…  So, I mean, what’s the problem here??

The need to make a statement or manufacture some drama is a constant pressure for the creators of the Trail-verse, however…  the concept of harvesting and managing wildlife has no place…  I will try to manufacture concern to match…