Child Logic

The smallest girl in the wild kid's gang submitted her finger to his tomahawk idea - It hurt bad, dropping off. He knew he'd gone too far and ran, herding the others. Later on, he'd maim her brother. She stayed in the bush till sundown, wrote in blood on the logs, and gripped her gapped hand, afraid what her parents would say to waste of a finger. Carelessness. Mad kids. She had done wrong some way.