...they don't actually whisper. I mean, they might. An animal whisperer is just someone who's really good with that animal, almost like they can speak the same language.

[Anyone else and she'd give some bullshit answer but she answers him honestly.

Now that they're sitting here, watching the chickens in the yard, they have a moment, don't they?]

Everyone was afraid of my powers, growing up. Even I was scared of myself. I hated my powers back then. The first time I was glad I was born was the day I met Shiho and Aoi. They were so cute! [She smiled and it's warm, it's sincere, because the memory was a fond one but the circumstances around them weren't.] They were my entire world and it didn't matter what happened to me as long as I could have the power to protect them. To the point where I was even willing to sacrifice others.

[It had hurt her to make those calls, those few times she had. But she hadn't known, at the time, how she could choose differently.]