Stone Circle Let's go back to the start

she was feeling very small when a movement in the shadows caught her attention, she leapt to her feet eagerly, a word on her lips. but when she saw the figure and realized it was not mama, but Steady, she slumped, the word lost before it had even been uttered. he lay nearby, and after a moment of looking to him she stepped closer, sitting on her haunches and leaning in his side as she looked to him, disappointment still rife in her gaze. Nikai? She did not know.

"I see 'm...'for" she said in a softer tone then her normal exuberant voice. How long ago, she could not tell, but she hadn't been paying attention. "Where mama?" she asked him, the thought on the forefront of her mind and not likeley in the least to simply be shoved aside. But he was a warm lump as her mother was, and she took comfort in this as she yawned, displaying her little rows of tiny sharp teeth. She was hungry, and tired, and a little bit nervous, yet Steady alieviated her lonelyness.