>"Well, it's... um..."
>"I suppose you probably don't know what food is, either, do you? I don't really know how to explain it if you don't."
>"It's an unpleasant sensation you'll feel when you need to take in some kind of substance that your body will use to sustain itself. You'll know it when you feel it."
>The newborn's expression doesn't change too much, but you have a sense she's not following you all that well.
>"Well, I didn't see that coming." Lily says quietly, her smile looking a little more uncertain.
>"Chie not surprised." the feline miko supplies. "Marigold different from Chie. Chie was cat; animal. Knew hot, cold, hunger, day, night. Didn't know words, had to leard those, but understood ideas. Marigold was ring. Not living, never lived before. Never felt before."
>Lily spares a glance your way, and you sense she's trying not to react the to irony in Chie's statement. "Yeah... guess that slipped my mind. Still a little overwhelmed by all this."
>Chie nods at her, then turns her attention to you. "See Arr Eh teach youkai these things. Have people to reach youkai that don't know words, have people to teach them words. Help find foods they like, sometimes how to cook, what food good and bad for them. Satori not only person in town practiced at handling and teaching new youkai. Many people there do that for living. Everyone there want to help youkai." She pauses for a moment, her expression growing a little... dreamier, is the word you'd use. "Boss Yuyuko very good at it, too. She visit now and then. She... 'got' Chie. Her heart is very big, she thinks different. Thinks with her heart."
