Satoru told me what everything was called. And that the mountain-ash berries are bright red. I remember some expert on TV saying once, ‘Cats have a hard time distinguishing the colour red.’ ‘Wow! Would you look at how red those berries are!’ Satoru called out, and that’s how I learned about the colour red. It no doubt appeared differently to Satoru, but I learned how what Satoru called red appeared to me. ‘The ones over there aren’t so red yet.’ Every time he saw trees through the window, Satoru would talk to me about them. So I became quite skilled at discriminating between different shades
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