stuck in the playpen

Not the littlest of his sisters, but certainly the quietest, Asahi wove her way through the bamboo. She liked to stick to the maze and so far did not enjoy venturing very far beyond it.

She hadn't caught the reason why her brother was bothered and not dashing off to the edge of bamboo as he had before, but she figured he was restless and by the look of their father's companion keeping an eye on him, he was stuck here.

She wanted to ask what was wrong, why he was all tense and pacing and restless. Instead, she silently bounded out of the bamboo toward him, licked his shoulder as she dashed by, and fled back into the bamboo, fumbling over a rock as she did so. Can't catch her!