The child's mother was packing up the clothes that she had hung at the front of her door. She was a little too late to pick her child up when the demons went inside the village, so she was unable to do anything when she saw Nailisi walk up to her child and squat down.
From her perspective, Nailisi was not smiling. Is that three-headed monster going to eat my son? She wanted to go up and snatch her child away, but her legs seemed to have been rendered completely stiff. It made her incapable of budging.
Nailisi was almost on all fours on the ground and still was unable to look at the child in the eyes. The child held on to a cat and lifted his head. He looked at Nailisi's big head and got very interested in the horns on it.
"What's your name?" Nailisi gently asked. She had impeccable control of her voice, so the child was not frightened at all.
"Gagas," the child replied.
"Right, Gagas, can I ask you a question?" Nailisi asked.
