[It takes a time for him to leave the flashes and watching and following, and the mask that keeps repeating over and over as the summons reports and obeys.]

Emonzaemon.

[Even as he lets the feather go and actually looks at Houou he's still in the memories and sensations because he had to see if it was just confused jumbles or if there actually was a pattern.]

He's following you? Us? The raven seems always near clan if not with a man in a mask.

[He shakes out of it and grins]

Maa, boss are you dealing with an ex we don't know about?

[Because saying out loud what that actually felt like was not something he could do right now.]