"Hm, I suppose you're not incorrect; Reality has so much more depth and color to it than can be represented by simple ink and paper. Like a lot of art, it's supposed to invoke memories or feelings, a landscape or time in the viewer's past."

"Then I guess you could say we Nezumi paint in smells?"

"Ah... that helps me understand it better. I can almost picture that in my mind even... How do you get the smells then? We get paints and inks from nature, plants and animals."

"Usually a mixture of herbs muds, and minerals, we carve with our teeth, I have a special" he cocks his head looking for the human word "Whet stone? passed down to me by my mentor, and mentors mentor to help with sharpening my teeth just right for the purpose"

Ayano blinked and pondered the other two's words, when an idea did come to here.

"What if one combined our painting and the Nezumi's painting? I wonder what such creation would be."

"What... like adding scents to the pigments? I wonder if the pigments themselves might overpower the effect? Still, I suppose I don't really know, and I'd be interested in seeing if that kind of thing could work."

"Layering scents in a way that invokes memories is a rare skill amongst my people, and typically is combined with texture cues too. "