"Tao! Tao, hurry and look, guess what I found?"
On a lush green lawn, the petite Tao, her whole body wrapped in leaves, was still busy with her woodworking. Just yesterday she had snapped in half and carried home that tens-of-meters-tall tree outside their home, splitting the trunk apart to build a place that could shelter them from wind and rain.
Tao turned her head toward the outside of the cave, only to see another child, likewise covered in leaves, scampering back. A thin red mark ran across the child's forehead, the face was cute, and on the back was slung a little furry beast. The beast had its head lolling to the side, clearly having been dead for quite a while.
The child who'd run back tossed the animal corpse off his back right in front of Tao, his pair of long ears twitching up and down by his temples, making him look especially excited.
