[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

Kaito laughed, covering his mouth when he did so. Then he leaned forward, "Pardon me, Ms. Toshi, but you asked two questions." He sat in a proper position again, clearing his throat and then grabbing the utensils, and having some difficulties getting used to tools he didn't have to use with his claws. He made an attempt to make it look like he was experienced with using the chopsticks.

"I'll answer your last question, since that one sounds like it is more of a curiosity to you," Kaito jabbed at the rice playfully, "Each tribe is made up of several families, and each tribe governs a territory. Us tengu are very territorial and will seek out to obtain more land, and that means conquering other tribes to get what we want. But several years ago, from what I have heard, my tribe and two others came together to unite rather than fight each other. Two heirs from each tribe were exchanged to the others, and those were paired with more heirs or high-ranking warriors." He stopped playing with his rice and sipped some more tea before continuing, "It was a trick by the other two tribes. Instead of two heirs, they sent two slaves, so that our tribe mingled royal blood with the blood of filth. And because of that, the other two tribes had no true bond with our tribe and attacked when the defenses were lowered. It was just a tactic to gain more territory and slaves, and the spoils of the battle would have been split between the two...if they had been successful. My tribe would have killed the bastard children along with their bastard lower-class parents if they could, but whatever the other two tribes did...it made it so that it was impossible for my tribe to get rid of the children, so they live as constant reminders within our land of how our gullibility almost brought our downfall. So instead of just calling them something like 'the tribe's mistake', we just call them 'marked'. They're dirty people, so they don't get the same privileges that the rest of us tengu do. I don't know why they didn't just toss them in the dungeons."

Kaito finally started eating, "This is good! You are a good cook Toshi. Anyways, the marked are easy to spot. In their human forms, they're supposed to wear dull colors, since normal tengu wear vivid colors. As crows, they have abnormal coloration. One is even completely lime-colored! She's so funny to look at!" He laughed out loud just thinking about it. Now he wasn't as upset with Toshi anymore, "I sensed another presence here. I didn't bother to get a good look, but he or she is similar to you, correct?"