Ouroboros Spine pick me up

Kausiut was not particularly affectionate by nature. Yes, she was attached to her mom and few other parent figures to a degree, but instead of calling it unconditional and pure love of a child, her approach was more practical. People often had resources that she did not. When it came to other puppies, she could be more aggressive in her approach. When it was adults, she had observed and learned that they responded more favourably, if she displayed a degree of submission and used one or two useful tactical moves to draw attention and to appease them. She was already showing early signs of a person, to whom emapthy was a foreign concept, but who had a strictly rational and calculating mind. 

What she had not learned by now was to keep her appearances long enough to divert the other person's attention away from her true intentions. For now her attempt to fool people was endearing and amusing. Like now - after that superficial greeting routine with Sialuk, she turned her attention to the bone fragments her older sibling had been playing with. She nosed them curiously, took a step back and looked at the owner inquisitively.