Ouroboros Spine The trouble was...

One eye squinted small, the other was at a happy delight to see her father. Tail wagging and she came to him with a crooked walk, only to stop in her tracks and immediately start barking at one of the den walls.

Aiolos stood still, head tilting in confusion as he looked between Kausiut and the dark hollow. What was she barking at?? What was she seeing?? Aiolos shifts inward, looking around for perhaps a bug, a mouse, a snake even which had gotten into their home but he saw and sniffed out nothing. Yet still, his daughter was determined something was there.

Even if Aiolos understood little of the otherworldly, even if he didn't know if what his daughter was seeing was only a figment of her imagination or something real, Aiolos would not allow Kausiut to be left thinking something was wrong with her. None of his six (seven, Huojin included) children would be left to think anything was wrong with them. They were just different in some ways. And different was okay.

So, standing so that his forelegs were straddling each side of his pup in protective display, Aiolos began aggressively growling and barking at the wall too. Maybe together, they could make whatever it was go away.