Noya starred at the Mongu child as the ground around them becomes moist wondering the red liquid coming out of them? It smelled familiar with it's irony scent, then she remembered that this is the same stuff that came out of her when she was left in the forest by her masters. This Mongu didn't look like they can move, and she couldn't move when she was brought. Noya did not know what to feel but she was getting a sense of pride. She thinks she l had a spar, a spar she won on top of it as she puffs out her chest with glee. It was much easier than she thought it would be. But after pause Noya remembers that Zani put green things on her when she was brought here and she got better. Maybe that's what she was supposed to do now?
Taking a step away about to get the leafs Zani put on her last night, Noya stops remembering what her masters said while they left her. Dead.
Despite not being told what it meant Noya had an instinctive understanding of the concept. Squatting down and poking the caved in skull of the Mongu child Noya is sure that she made this Mongu dead. Rising to her feet Noya yawns casually and takes a step out of the pooling blood. Noya did not care about their life, she was only concerned about what to do next. That thought is cut short when she sees the body of the Mongu child slide away from the pile of fruit. Noya turns around and see Zani who makes eye contact.
Noya:"Noya dud what Zani say. That one come to take fruit! Noya spar that one. Now they dead."
Zani:"Zani hear, Noya loud. Too loud...Noya do good."
Zani says grumbling as Noya beams with more prude then before then dragging the body out of the hut and tossing it into the street without so much as a huff. The blood slowly absorbed by the dirt below as the bod falls onto the ground and a howling is heard. Several Mongu already awake ignore these howls after turning to see the body and continuing to go about their day. The rays of sunlight shining on the corpse as several creatures that have ferret like bodies mixed with the jaws and claws of hila monster rush out from trap doors that should have been hidden. But have been reduced to wooden flaps that are as clear as day in the hills od dirt and in the side of walls. Instantly they start biting and pulling parts of the body in different directions, snapping up fingers and chunks of flesh before dragging off the body into a trap door. Zani doesn't knows by the end of the day that body is going to be put into the bone pile in side of the village. Regardless Zani recognized the color of that Mongu's clothes to be that of a rival clan. With a satisfied grin at the threat to her clan and food source gone Zani looks over to the mother of the dead Mongu child.
Zani:"Zani say your runt weak. Zani try to make deal. Make your runt live, If your runt pair with Jukku. Shame too weak for pairing, too weak to live. Like you, do better."
The Mongu woman growls in anger but, not at seeing her dead daughter get carried away. She was angry that her child was weak enough to die while stealing and not bothering to at LEAST die AFTER giving her the stolen fruit. But the anger quickly leaves ash she responds.
???:"Zani is old, old bitch. Weak woman. Should be quiet But right, Rella was weak. Sister will not."
The woman says before cracking her neck and walking inside, while picking up a rock with her tail and throwing it at Zani. Who leans to the side dodging the rock as it blows a hole in her hut and seven huts behind her's.
After walking back inside Zani reaches up to Noya's head, making Noya flinch before relaxing. After seeing she can barely get her hand up to Noya's chest level when standing. Zani gestures for Noya to lean down several times before Noya does so. Zani then pats Noya's head filling the girl with a sense of pride, feeling in every part of her body that she'd done something right. This was how striders would Mongu give positive enforcement and acknowledgements by striders. The entire gesture is really a sign of submission and obedience but Mongu after several generations of it accepted it as a normal thing.