Bramblepoint BWP: We saw the same sunset

"What's a woombrother?" He asked, his head righting itself and then tilting in the other direction at the word. He'd never heard that before- why was it that Ajei had a womb-brother but he did not? It wasn't as though he paid attention to the words for female anatomy, anyway. He knew what he had, and that was good enough for him. 

His lips pulled back in surprise. "Bigger an' meaner than a bear?" He asked, dreadfully, before his expression turned to wicked delight. "Coooooool," He imagined something taller, feathered, and with massive talons that swooped down and shoved the bear over the side of the Caldera- thoughts likely reminiscent of the time he had been attacked by an owl in his youth. "Well, if we wanna know, I spose we should keep diggin'," He said, pawing at the earth near the creature's ribs again. 

The digging had begun to make his paws sore, though, so his attempts became half-hearted, until he turned to Ajei again. "You think we could pull one of its ribs out?" He blurted suddenly.