Sly Fox Sand Dunes wandering child of the earth

the scaled one was forgotten. zoug heard s'ari make his and her name-sounds. "zsuma?" he asked after a moment, eyeing the stranger. s'ari had already accepted her. their voices were similar in swiftness. 

the ravine! zoug did not like the idea of taking this one there yet. but with three of them, there was better hunting. and so the man grunted and began to root for grubs, licking them from the cooler sand beneath small rocks as he glanced up and waited for s'ari to lead them back.