[The names are all foreign, but the concepts... are not. It's weirdly comforting, in a way, to hear something, almost anything that made sense in this chaotic and unfamiliar land. Even something as simple as-]

I see.

[... No, she was supposed to say more than that. If it were that chatterbox Kohibari... if it were Koume, who spoke so warmly and easily... if she were literally any other jinba... Awkward, as if she wasn't even sure how to properly have a "casual" conversation-]

... They do the same in my lands. Send boys to the temples to be educated, or become monks. Human ones, anyway.

[Her hooves clop softly on the cobblestones, disguised just slightly by the bundle of sticks she carries to create a muffling sound as she walks. As she realizes- perhaps she should not have opened her mouth. Because now that she has...]