Ouroboros Spine kunikruk ∄

Kausiut had observed that occasionally her silence made other people uneasy and they tended to fill it with more words. Her mom was no exception, though there seemed to be something else there too. An emotion, which gave her speech a different quality. One that was hard to ignore and depending on Kau's mood made her either annoyed or curious.

She deliberated between letting the silence linger or cutting it out and chose the latter. The girl pulled herself to her feet, hobbled to one of the piles and after rummaging there for a while, returned to her mother with a round stone in her jaws. She put it down by her feet, looked up and said: "Calm."