This is brilliant.

First off, a few things. I got already confused how everything was happy and peaceful. I already thought for a while this was a happy ending for your story.

However, when the little kid came along, I remembered the story these started from and thought this is a trick by humans to attack the Ceph.

However Nora was dead. Just as I was hoping for afraid of. I'm glad most of others seem to have survived, more to kill in the next stories.