[So, no tattoo that she can see - though she'll have to check herself over more thoroughly when she gets the chance - but tied to one of these strange shadows. Bishamon can't help but figure she isn't the only one this particular scenario is an unusual circumstance for.]

I've noticed. They keep running away before I can get near them, which makes it difficult to ask. Though if they are the natives and this is a known phenomenon in this world, they may have seen it before and have reason to fear it.

[Humans and other living things can be surprisingly resilient to the monstrous and terrifying. She can't imagine they'd be fleeing so indiscriminately if there wasn't something more to the presence of the shadows.]