Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 27 [Parts 1 to 7] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

After dinner that night, we spent the rest of our evening getting to know our new family member. Upon returning from her hunting work, Ai Fa had headed to the Ruu settlement right away and had chosen one of the hunting dogs for herself.

Currently, the dog was curled up into a ball on top of the rug in our main hall. He had been given giba meat and a bone for dinner, and was looking quite satisfied now.

Ai Fa had picked a dog with a reddish pelt. His eyes were closed now, but they looked quite clever and had made me fall in love with him right away too. Gilulu was resting on the dirt floor of the entranceway on the other side of the dog from me, and I thought the two of them were adorable together.

“He looks so peaceful now that he’s asleep. It’s almost hard to believe that he has the courage to face down a giba, seeing him like this,” I said

“Indeed,” Ai Fa replied with a nod. Her gaze had been fixed on the dog for some time now. It was clear to me how much she already cherished him. It seemed the people of the forest’s edge really were universally drawn to totos and dogs.

“You’ll be taking handling lessons alongside the Fou, right?”

“Yes. Asking the Ruu to send us a hunter just to teach me would be unreasonable, and we also have no one to send back in exchange, so I will be going into the forest alongside the Fou and Ruu hunters for a few days,” Ai Fa said, and then she turned my way for the first time in a while. “It seems Ludo Ruu will be one of the hunters sent to the Fou clan. It feels a bit strange to imagine him sleeping among them.”

“You think so? Well, I’d be happy if Ludo Ruu and Aimu Fou would become friends after this.”

“Yes, I would too,” Ai Fa replied with a nod and a gentle look on her face, and then she adjusted her sitting posture a bit. “By the way, Asuta, about our new clan member’s name...”

“Right, we have to give him a new name now that we’ve taken him in. Do you have something in mind?”

“No. I would like you to come up with the name.”

That was rather unexpected.

“But why? The dog is going to be your partner, and besides, shouldn’t you be the one to name him as the clan head?”

“It seems to me that Gilulu is your partner, and yet I was the one to name him. This time, I want you to do the naming,” Ai Fa said, fidgeting a bit. She had already let down her hair, which shined like gold in the dim lighting. “Besides...at the forest’s edge, the father is typically the head of the house and the one who names the children, but sometimes the mother does instead. It is not a rule that only clan heads do the naming.”

“Ah, I see.”

Ai Fa’s fidgeting was causing me to get a bit nervous too.

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