Stavanger Bay (fall in, fall out, fall along)

The explanation happens faster than Qilaq is able to process, trying not to get caught up in one before she hears the next. While questions have risen in her mind, a heavy breath has lodged into her chest as Doe explains the differences in Amayo and mama. Her eyes glaze over in an unexplained hurt she doesn't know how to voice. Her head drops and she stares at the ground instead, the rest of her body trembling. The breath escapes her in a rattle and her heart begins to beat quickly—something she has only felt a handful of times—and tries to steady herself with little success.

It is only when Doe speaks her name that she feels the change. Qilaq's surge of emotions seemed to halt upon a brick wall as her wet eyes stare up at the woman. She doesn't get the answers she wanted but she is given something that should make her feel comforted. Qilaq swallows a hard lump building in her throat and she looks away to try and sort everything building up in the back of her mouth. "Okay," she says quietly and through a suddenly dry mouth. She smacks her lips a little and lowers her head to rest against Doe's chest.

Qilaq blinks a few times and swallows a second, hardened lump in her throat. Slowly, she turns her attention back but her own weight feels heavy and while the questions mostly remain without the proper words, she shifts so that she can fully lay on her side with her back against her mother. Quietly, she murmurs amayo to herself a few times, followed by mama but in that moment, she can't find comfort in either one. "M'tired, mama," she mumbles once she adjusts her position once more, tucking as much of herself beneath Doe as much as she can.