"He couldn't control himself anymore than a seal that finds its skin."
Selkie-folk can be gentle, but their story is sad. Seals are humans who voluntarily threw themselves into the ocean and are now condemned to wearing the seal skins, only allowed to take them off once a year. To bind a seal to yourself, you must steal their skin and not allow them to have it back. However, even if a seal person really settles back into normal life and enjoys it, the minute they find their skin, they cannot control themselves. They will put on the skin and rush to the ocean, back, back to their graveyard.
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