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When he got up he was covered in snow and he was farther away from home than he’d ever been before, but he still could not roar like the other polar bears.
On the soft white snow a set of small footprints led toward the water. Rootsi followed the tracks, hoping to find someone who could help him learn how to roar.
He found a large brown walrus and a small white fox lying down next to each other on a block of ice. They stared at Rootsi.
“What’s wrong, little bear?” the fox asked. “Why are you all alone?”
“I must learn how to roar,” Rootsi answered.
The walrus covered his ears with his large fins. “Please don’t roar!” he said. “Your roars are so loud we can’t hear the wind when it whispers or the fox when he howls or the birds when they sing.””
“But I can’t roar,” Rootsi said.
“A bear that cannot roar?” asked the fox. “How strange.”
“Listen,” Rootsi said. He filled his lungs with the cold sea air as the fox buried his head in the walrus’s wrinkly blubber belly.
Rootsi’s roar went “Toooot! Tooooooooot!”
The fox lifted his head and looked at the walrus. They both smiled widely.
“I am not a very good bear,” Rootsi said.
“You are wonderful!” the fox and the walrus both yelled. “We play music too!”
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