“Or, if he does not know it is there, has anything else been coming through it? We shall see.”
“Baba, what if the curly-haired man finds out you are a witch, and I am a shape-changer?
Do you think he would attack us? He’s a Master Huntsman. It’s his job to hunt things like us.”
“Don’t you worry. Old Baba has taken care of self for a hundred of your lifetimes. And Gullin, he’s on our side.”
Tanuki twitched his nose, and he scratched his head. “But…why is Gullin protecting us, when he was a Huntsman too? I don’t seem to remember…why I went looking for him after Master Yofune died…” His black eyes became glossy, and he let out a whine in his throat when he mentioned his old master.
“Shh, shh, not now,” Baba hushed him. “We find answers to everything later. Once we get sphinx back, a
