‘’Speak to you? How is that possible? We are the only race that can speak in our world.’’
Their daughter Riak, still very much a young juvenile, then approached the prey, which was still much smaller than her, to examine it from up close, making the thing recoil and back away until its back was against one of the rock walls of the cave.
‘’Hey, it has some kind of weird second skin all over it and has a few things attached to it.’’
Using one of her forward legs like an arm, Riak then grabbed parts of that ‘second skin’ near a bleeding wound and pulled, ripping off a good part of it. Biting into that piece of ‘skin’ in order to taste it, the young female Kooroo spat it out nearly at once.
‘’FEWW! It tastes horrible! Are we really going to eat that for supper, mother?’’
‘’Maybe it will t
