-- oh, um. [Natsume is quiet for a long moment, fidgeting a little up on the branch. Then he decides to be sort of honest; the guy has a big lion, maybe he's open to...weirdness.] I was...there was something in my room. I didn't think it would follow me into the tree. Usually they don't.

Ah. [Another long look at the lion.] So she's real.