"Kobold not want anything?"

"Mm."

"Want kobold, kobold no want I." She curls up in a ball again.

If he tries to hug her does he ruin everything?

He approaches the curled up kobold and wraps his arms around her.

Slowly, and lightly. Because if she wants to get out, she should be able to.

She shudders and starts crying but doesn't move.

That's probably not much better?

He doesn't know how to read this at all.

He leans back from the touch, leaving just one hand on her shoulder.

She whimpers, when he moves away.

Well. He strokes her fur, and leans a bit closer.

He's almost as warm as she is.

She feels less tired; more alert and full of energy.

He seems to flag slightly, but the touch doesn't stop.

She snuggles back against him, and after several minutes her crying slows.

"If I want food and I eat food, I am happy. If I want learn and I learn, I am happy. I want kobold be happy."

She doesn't answer.

He hugs her.

And he yawns.

"Scott tired. Scott sleep?" 

"Scott sleep."

Scott sleeps. 

He probably does not wake up before the kobold. 

The kobold mostly doesn't sleep. Naps, some. When the fire burns low a few hours later she wriggles carefully out of his grip and goes to fix it.

And then he wakes up. 

"Kobold sleep good?" 

"I no sleep." She did lay back down next to him after fixing the fire; now she sits up again. "You hungry?"

"I hungry. Kobold want learn English?"

Shrug, "Okay."

She stands, though, and lights a torch from the fire, and moves toward one of the tunnels out of the cave, looking back to see if he's going to follow.

He follows.

"If I am hungry, I eat. If I am hungry, then I eat. If I am tired, then I sleep."

"If I am thirsty, then I drink. Water."

The tunnel slopes downward, mostly gently. After a few minutes, the air becomes moister and begins to cool, and a few minutes after that, the tunnel forks, and the fork she takes opens up into a smaller cavern with a stream flowing across it. The floor of the cavern is piled with food, most of it in inexpertly-woven baskets - pumpkins and squash, oats and flour and rice and potatoes, nuts, dried fruit, jerky of several kinds of meat. There's a pile of carefully cleaned bones, too. "Food," she gestures to it.

"If I am no tired, then difficult sleep. If I am tired, then difficult no sleep. If I am hungry, and I want food, I eat. Home I eat, food no difficult. I eat home if food difficult here?"

She shrugs. "Scott eat."

Yeah he's totally going to have to feed the kobold and all their friends.

"Scott eat."

He goes for rice and potatoes, hoping they're fairly easy to get.

"If I am tired, then I sleep. If I sleep, then I am no tired. If I am tired and I no sleep, then I am more tired. If am hungry and then I no eat, then I am more hungry. If I am more hungry I need more food." 

"Here more food," she comments. She takes a squash and some jerky and hands him a small bowl of dried fruit.

"No more food. I teach, no need. If I no hungry and I eat, then I less hungry. I am  hungry, I eat less food, I am less hungry."