（ he assumes that he's talking about the birds — it is not so unusual for summons to have names in his world, though he never gave any to his own. but that was more a consequence of the working relationship he had with them than a tenet of the shinobi world — he cannot think of anyone else who neither asked nor gave their summon a name. ）

Please.

（ then, after a careful pause: ）

Are they old enough for you to communicate with...? I do not know what happened to their parents. If they are merely injured somewhere I would like to find them — but they had been left alone for at least three days that I noticed.