Ah so her was a traveller too. Nanako could tell from the look of him...as strange as that sounded. Then again, there are some folks you can just lump in with the wander types. Nanako did wonder if he was travelling along, but something told her that he was pretty much a loner, maybe it was his odd clothes that tipped this off to her? Even so, he seemed friendly enough for a stranger so there didn't seem to much problem with dropping gaurd for a moment to maybe make a new friend. Nanako's never really had many in all honesty, being she was always on the road wihth Mitsuko it didn't exactly prove to be prime conditions to make and keep friends. Nanako's animal ears perked up as she noticed the man ask for her name, despite her watching the bird fly back to his "nest" on the other side of the lake. "Oh right, uhm, my names Nanako Shiisa and I come from the Azuma region to the east." Nanako replied as she pointed in the direction that she thought lead eastward. In truth she really had no idea where east was, oh well, RoTT should know where east was. With that said, this man even had quite a strange name to go with his looks...was he from the place Mitsuko told her about...the "outside world"? Only one way to find out...<br/><br/>"So...RoTT was it?" Nanako said watching as he lit a cigar. The Koma Inu scooted away from RoTT slightly, her canine like nose a bit too sensitive to take in the cigar's smoke at a close range. "Are you from around here, or are you from the outside world, where the humans come from?" There was an obvious sense of excitment rising within her voice again. The same sort of excitment a child gets when they are eager to learn of something they are usually not exposed to.<br/><br/>= Meanwhile... =<br/><br/>It would seem that, even though Mitsuko took her eyes off the strange little girl, the uneasy feeling that wafted from her like an odd miasma was still proving to encrouch itself upon the kitsune. Mitsuko continued to eat her Shoyu noodles, well aware that the feeling she had before was edging closer to her with each second. The kitsune's tails frizzled up once more, this time more than one following suit as her senses continued to yell at her about the strange prescense that was closing in on her. Even so, she remained planted where she was, unsure on if she should have really done this or not. Of course, it would seem awfully rude if she simply just upped and ran back to Nanako, on top of that, this was some great ramen she was having. No need to let this spoil it, right? Mitsuko's golden eyes glanced up from her steaming bowl, to see that she was not the only one to be unnerved by this prescense; the tanuki that was tending to the noodles at the back of the stand seems to have disappeared, leaving behind a paper sign stating that he would be back in a shortly. It looks like Mitsuko was on her own with this...not that it was strange, ever since she left the Byakko house that has always been the case for things...<br/><br/>Mitsuko glanced back to the approaching girl and put on a friendly smile. "Why hello there, little one~" Mitsuko was certain there was nothing little about this girl...such an odd sense of unease does not normall exist in yokai so young. "Have you come here for the ramen? I must say it's absolutely wonderful~" If she were to look at Mitsuko's tails she would notice three of them were frizzled and twitching about with an odd sense of distress. It would seem that, even though, Mitsuko could mask her emotions with a smile, her animalistic instincts were still there to make this very mask faulter.