Snowforest Taiga [feast] dandelion wishes

when they respond, shikoba does her best to stifle a little laugh. she forgets how peculiar children can be with certain things and decides it would probably come off as insulting if she did laugh. instead, she just leans her shoulder against the golden child for a moment to think of a good answer without making them hate her.

"strangers can be scary," she says softly, "some are nice, and some can be mean. it depends on wolf we meet." shikoba looks over her body for a moment, over the healing bruises and gnashes of the tartok man who challenged her with little reason and little explanation. "shikoba met stranger not nice days ago. he challenged sivullik." her eyes return back on the body of the child. "but shikoba not afraid of strangers, even after attack."

"ink will learn how to pick good stranger from bad. but ink should focus on not being scared wth not Moonglow wolves. many others live outside our spine." hopefully the star child would want to explore more of what the world had to offer, but until then, shikoba would be happy to keep them warm and fed for now.