"Oh, so that's how it is," Setsuko said. So they were like the Yamatai, but also like non-Yamatai as well, displaying jewels or wearing them on their bodies.

"If a mammal is a creature that bears live young, how could your 'museum' hold them all? They must be countless," she replied, thinking of the menagerie she'd seen in Lin'an and the fantastical animals she'd seen there.