She'll follow, then.

Around the rock they will go, then!

There are more rocks. There is also a bigger cavern. Some of these rocks are glowing blue. Ominously.

"I realize there will be no satisfactory answer, but why are the rocks glowing?"

The rocks don't actually seem to respond, but Thario decides to walk closer to them. "So far, stuff in this place hasn't been, you know, actually harmful. Just a little weird."

The keriol is slightly unamused. It decides to headbutt him on the cheek and then say, "You know, you seem to have a really good selective memory."

"He did run away before the dogs actually showed up and I killed them. And then he was asleep for the part where he almost died after the bunny bit him."

"What about the tree? He was there for that."

"Mm. Good point."

Then Thario touches one of the rocks!

… It does exactly nothing! It continues to glow ominously.

"Huh," he says. "I would've expected that to do something."

"Something like what?"

"I'm not sure," he says. Then he looks around the rock a little, notices how it's rather weirdly positioned opposite another ominously glowing rock, and taps that—

Then he– she?– jumps a bit.

And the keriol scampers off him-or-her, making sure to avoid that ominously glowing rock.

"What."

"Did–" she starts, then seems to notice the pitch of her voice and makes a little eeping noise. What? she signs, quite scared and confused.

This animal is just going to sit a few paces away, not looking at him-or-her.

Eeeng. It does not seem to be a happy keriol.

"Why are you female now."

The lizard goes over to nudge the keriol with its snout.

I don't know, she signs. I don't even know if it's just sex or gender or what.

She moves back from the ominously glowing rock and eyes it warily.

It's just gonna lie here with its eyes shut for a minute.

"Try touching the rocks again?"

So she tries touching that rock again!

… It does nothing!

And the other rock–

– yup, looks like he's male again? He also shudders a little.

"That was strange. What do the others do?"

"… I'm not sure I really want to be test subject."