Larksong Grotto suffering without speech, i knew you would return

he was stopped mid-leap! to his poor realization, and the fat child plopped heavily at his mothers side. he echoed his brothers "mama," but when Tapat's attention turned towards him Astik couldn't help but be distracted. her eyes welled with tears, something that Astik understood as discontent because he and Tapat very often used tears as a way to get what they wanted. her howl was a weird sound, but not a foreign one, and though he didn't forget the weird shift in his mothers mood, he followed along w his brother and howled with Jhala.