Hushed Willows i tried to bury the moon

the woman doesn't respond to him at all, besides looking kind of scared of his stick. oh! sheepishly he lays it down at his feet, his tail thumping against the ground in a friendly way. "sorry!" he says, tilting his head at her curiously. she doesn't seem to be about to respond to him otherwise, and he wonders if she'd not heard him, or if he'd been very muffled by the stick after all, repeating shyly: "um, i said m'names oke-anos, who're you?"