Ouroboros Spine Nix

Kausiut realized that it had not been necessary to ask that question, because she could read it in her father's features. He looked happy and content with, what life and gods had given him. Asked the same question herself, she had to think about it thoroughly. Unhappiness was an umbrella term to the myriad of nuanced emotional states. Kau had been discontent. She experienced frustration on daily basis. She had felt empty of any emotions. She had felt satisfied with a hunt. Or excited. If one compares one's state of their mind to a Celsius thermometer then Kau's life was a stable 0 with fluctuations to either -5 or +5, nothing of extreme.

"Tired," she responded with a word that in her opinion said it all. No, she was not going to leave anytime soon not least because it was winter, but also chances of survival for her without the village's support were close to non-existant. Coming here had been hard enough.