[Sorry babe, Ain wants to see if bamboo is as hard as it looks. He pokes it with a claw and determines that it is, in fact, a very solid plant. How do pandas eat this... Wow, what if he were a panda. Would he know?]

Haha, I'm right here. I just wanted to see this.

[He's only ever seen those tiny pots of decorative bamboo in stores, not actual trees like this, and he knows he's not supposed to touch anything but he had to know. Plants are so fascinating to him. He'd like to grow some, when they settle down one day.

Up ahead, they've managed to turn the bamboo into a small shack type of deal — they can go into it and read placards about how this is done, and it's only about five feet away from them on the path. Ain veers that way after he and Vash get a good look at Tree.]

Maybe we can move to the middle of the woods one day and build a bamboo house.

[He's joking. He kind of wants a log cabin in the mountains now. But if Vash wanted it, Ain would say okay, sure.]