"You talk to mice?" And suddenly Aglet's glad he never learned to hunt, even if mice are dangerous (and, he's told, tasty). If he'd gone around killing mice, who knows what this mouse-person would do now?

Her explanation just confuses him more, but he tries not to show it. If this stuff is common knowledge, he doesn't want to look like a bumpkin. "Nah, I'm not one of those," he decides. If he was, he thinks, he'd probably know about it.