Take a moment

Given the instruction of eating the mouse, Aslatiel blinked a few times. Maybe she should have caught something bigger. A rabbit maybe? Carefully, she opened the fat rodent with one sharp claw and plucked out a few choice bits which she promptly ate. The mouse had a belly of underdeveloped babies and the girl ate them up, crunching their somewhat soft bones between her jaws. Once she had eaten what she could, she pushed the flayed corpse, ribs and other various bones piled up inside, towards the cobra.

Intently, Aslatiel watched with vibrant purple eyes, wondering just what the snake would do. She still had no idea how this worked. What would he tell her? Would it be good news or bad news? Would he have news of her place in the world? Would he tell her which brother would take the Armada throne? There were endless questions and she couldn't wait to have answers to some of them.