The coffee cup touched the table with a soft sound.
Clack.
Yuna instantly fell silent.
The pencil in her hand hovered slightly above her book.
Her eyes waited.
I looked at the question for a moment.
"The hare and the tortoise."
"Yes."
"What the hare said after losing."
"Yes."
I picked up one of her pencils.
And tapped it once against the paper.
Tap.
"The hare said nothing."
Yuna blinked.
"...It didn't?"
"No."
I tapped the question again with the tip of the pencil.
"Hares belong to the family Leporidae."
She stared at me.
Still confused.
I continued in the exact same tone I used for reading food labels.
"Their vocal cord structure does not allow for the formation of complex human language."
The room fell silent for a few seconds.
Yuna still held her pencil.
Her rapid breathing had stopped.
She tried to process the sentence.
"...So..."
"So, the hare didn't speak."
I set the pencil back down on the table.
