"Better than me," she told him, settling on her belly in the sand with the pika between them. "I cannot catch things. Only a - ehm, come si chiama...? - a moose? A muse?" Her nose wrinkled again as she tried to come up with the right word for it. "Un topo. Small gray thing."
She took a bite of the pika and hummed with delight, tail thumping the ground happily. She had been very hungry, but she hadn't realized it til now.
