Zaya was sad after she lost Lil Thing, she refused to go out of her room and would often ask Zale to take her to Lil Thing's grave, which happened near their family burial. She would talk to her sisters to take care of Lil Thing.
Sometimes, it would be Zenith or Zander who accompanied her there and her father or mother, but Zaya still felt very sad. Lucia tried to cheer her up, but despite everyone's effort, there was no improvement.
People missed her cheekiness and the sound of her laughter and Cane reduced his working time to spend it with his little one, yet most of the time, Zaya would be sleeping, she would hug him and sleep away her sadness. This trait reminded Cane of his mate.
Understandably because this was the first time for Zaya to face death. Her first experience of the mortality, her first understanding that everything had its own time.