[Oh. This changes things, though Ashitaka had already readied himself for the answer. He thinks briefly of asking how this came to happen but then it catches up to him that, well, these enchanted boars can't speak. His brows furrow, and there's a real unease at the thought that every pig in Deerington is supposed to be human.

That can't be. But suppose it were...?

Then he should get to work, at least with this little one. Ashitaka nods, thinking back to the mummers he'd passed.] I'm supposed to carry you up a mountain...

[Which is a welcome sort of thing, really. The modern town was foreign to him; the mountains weren't.

Ashitaka glanced back to the trapped Sleeper. Curses weren't the best things to live with, were they?] Are you okay with that? I'd have to carry you to the mountains, until we find a river.