"Daddy?" Jay felt a tug on the hem of his shirt, and when he looked down, there was a small, black figure standing at his feet who hadn't been there moments earlier. This, of course, didn't surprise him, but rather made him squat down, smiling, to face the little one tugging on his shirt.

"Hmmm?" he asked.

"We were playing guess the person in class today," Kuro said softly. "Where we close our eyes, and use other things, like smell or feel to guess who it is. I got them all right!"

Jay stared at the beaming child in front of him, and started to smile back. He wasn't surprised, not with the nose that Kuro had inherited. His sense of smell was just as good as the foxes that his kind resembled, sometimes even better, since Jay was slightly convinced that Kuro's magical senses were also somehow tied to his sense of smell. As it was, even with magic he had a hard time sneaking up on Kuro...which was a bit disappointing, but seemed to make Kuro happy.

"Good for you," Jay said.

"And then Sensei asked me to try something..." Kuro continued, blue eyes shining with excitement. "He wanted me to try doing it without my nose too, since when he asked me how I knew who everyone was I told him that everyone smelled different. That was hard."

"Oh?" Jay asked, and the child in front of him nodded.

"Mmm!" Kuro affirmed. "I tried to use my hands, since Sensei didn't tell me I couldn't do that and I saw Theo doing that when it was his turn. He was feeling everyone's faces, and then he told who it was, and he was almost always right! But I didn't get it right..."

Jay wasn't quite sure to say to this. Kuro didn't seem particularly upset, though there was a bit of regret in his voice when he announced that he got it wrong. Instead, Jay just smiled some more, and waited to see if the young kitsune had anything else to tell him. Sure enough...there was a little more coming...

"But Daddy?" Kuro asked, pausing a little and looking up at Jay with wide eyes.

"What?" Jay asked.

"Sensei's face is really rough! He's prickly!"