Frida followed Diego down the hill to get food. For once, she was actually smiling at him.
"I'm so excited!" she said. "I'm finally hunting!"
"Hunting?" Diego chuckled. "Pet, this isn't hunting. It's scavenging."
Frida stopped in her tracks looking at him. Pet? Why did he just call her that. Diego noticed how quiet it got and noticed she stopped following him. He looked back to see her looking at him confused.
"What's the matter with you?" he asked.
"Why did you call me pet?" Frida asked. "I'm not your pet."
Diego shook his head with a sigh.
"You are a pet. You're a pet to those humans. It's not natural."
"What do you mean?" she asked following him. "I spent nearly my whole life with those humans. They've been nothing but good to me."
"It's that why you want to return to them?" he asked. "you want to go back to being a useless pet."
"Useless?"
"You think this is hunting", Diego explained. "Haven't you ever been on a hunt before?"
"Well...no..."
Frida looked down embarassed knowing she had just proven his point. He looked at her and said nothing more as they walked to where the dead dodos lay.
"Go ahead and help yourself", Diego said.
"Aren't we going to cook these over a fire or something?" Frida asked.
"Cook animals over a fire?" he asked.
"That's what the humans always fed me."
Diego rolled his eyes shaking his head.
"Look, pet", he said. "Real sabers don't live with humans. Real sabers don't eat cooked meat. You don't have any humans to protect you, so I suggest you start acting like a real saber."
He walked off and started to eat. Frida watched him feeling hurt he didn't consider her a real saber. He was right. She had lived with the humans so long, she forgot what it was like to be a real saber. She didn't know where to start if she wanted to be one. Diego looked at her and sighed.
"Look, pet", he said. "Why don't you just come here and eat. You need it."
Frida looked at him and walked toward the dodo and watched as he just bit into it. She looked at the dodo and sighed. She closed her eyes and bit into its body eating the meat raw. It was different than cooked meat, but it wasn't half bad.
By the time the group rejoined, Diego was already full and sleepy. Frida watched as he laid down to sleep while Manny and Sid were taking care of the baby. Sid was changing the baby and was not enjoying it.
"Hey, poop checker", Manny said. "What's the report?"
Sid held his nose as he picked up the baby's used diaper.
"Bury that thing nice and deep now", Manny said. "We don't need any cave bears sniffing around."
"That's it", Sid said pointing to the baby. "No more fruit for you, mister."
The baby giggled as he watched Sid take the diaper out of the area. Manny picked him up and wrapped him in his trunk.
"Bedtime, squirt."
Manny laid down with the baby in his trunk and watched as Frida walked over to him. She nuzzled the baby, purring.
"Goodnight, Roshan", she said and licked his forehead.
Frida laid down and looked back at Diego who was already asleep. Although he seemed nice, she still didn't trust him when it came to the baby. Oh well, he was asleep now. Not much he could do now. She let out a growling yawn and closed her eyes.