[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"..." the hair on the back of his neck went straight on end, thinking more about how a tune that he heard had managed to reach human ears, or vice versa. And suddenly he got more serious, placing his chopsticks down and trying to think about the situation more. "Did your mother have any sort of communication with the tengu? I'm sure our people used magic to prevent normal humans from wondering too close to our villages.. Or maybe a tengu visited her.. Or..this could go back further?" without Toshi's parents around, he thought it would be that much harder to figure this out, but one thing was certain: at some point, the tengu and human were around together long enough to learn about the song.