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Caelum had studied that adults often said 'how are you', so when Meerkat asked this to him he could only assume that she had looked at adults and had learned from them, like he did. He knew that there were a lot of answers one could give, but 'good' was the best answer of all. And there was nothing not-good that day, so with a wiggle of his nose as he thought about this Caelum answered: Good. He did not quite realise that he should ask the question back, too, to truly finish this polite conversation they were having.

His sister had come with and she immediately asked about the stumps that were put down. Caelum had not even stopped to think about the stumps, really. He stared at them and wondered why Mintaka was always so curious. That was kind of strange to him. Why would anyone need to know everything? Meerkat did not mind explaining, though, and Caelum looked at Meerkat as she seemed happy with the questions, even. This, too, seemed weird to Caelum, but he sat down and listened to the explanation that Meerkat would surely give soon.