Adèlaide

She didn't really know what to tell him, the words had left her mouth as if they could no longer stand the taste of her tongue. Her mind was blanketed in an unknown layer, she could barely surpass it. His questions were leaving her flustered, she wanted to have every answer for him and she didn't know why, she wanted to have every answer for herself as well but that was equally as difficult. Her words seemed to abscond, leave her with a dry mouth and wide unknowing eyes. Why couldn't she answer him? Why didn't she know what to say? "I don't know!" She was snapping now, she could hear the way her words cut out of her mouth to slap down into the wrongness of the cave. How dare he ask her a question she had no answer to, couldn't he see that she was also struggling with fun? She had just left her chrysalis for Spire's sake! Learning to talk, even with the brute, had come pretty quickly, of course, she still did not know much but she knew something, and here he was throwing questions at her that she didn't? That was just cruel. "Hunt can be fun. Lots can be fun, no?" She didn't have much to go on really, other than...

She grinned wide. "Like this." She threw her voice, quite literally even though she knew she hadn't done it last time, tilting her head back and shaking her head. The words seeping into the crack around them, swallowed up by the mist, dripping from the roof, coming from everywhere but her. The words were soft, a whisper into your ear, ghostly, a being stood right beside you, behind you, in front of you. "Your face first time when I do that was...fun!" His expression had started off something inside her, a pleasing sensation in her mind, joy and pride at having confused someone. Yet she hadn't seen any kind of sign like that from him since their meeting. "Maybe fun not the same for me and you?" Hunting can't be all he wanted to do, surely. She didn't exactly know what hunting entailed, but it couldn't be so fascinating that it took up all his mind? She had only been around for a few moments and already she wanted to go exploring down this tunnel, see what was at the end of it, see if there were others, find out if she could do anything else with her voice.

He was so sure about the rats, and perhaps he was telling the truth that you could only eat rats whatever they were, but she wasn't about to admit that. This had also become fun."You eat rats because not smart? What if they not your smart?" Were there different kinds of smarts? Ah well, that didn't matter too much right now. "If I not talk to you, you eat me?" Her head tilted, large innocent eyes. "That not sound right." There was really not much aim to this, other than to get him to question what he knew, though surely he would know that she did not have any knowledge with what she was talking about and it would all be in vain but nevertheless, she continued.