"Actually, there are a lot of blind awakened," she corrected, rolling her shoulders and leaning back in her chair for a moment, cleaning her lips with a napkin.

"They sense the sort of energy around demons, like a pressure or weight in the air. Sort of how a lot of blind people don't hair to hear breathing or footsteps to know someone is in the room with them, because they can feel the subtle shift in the air and feel the eyes on them. Usually blind awakened are very well-respected and taken care of among demons. They're the humans that judge the least. They can't tell when a human form is fake and they're often more ready to accept differences in their companions because they to struggle with the scrutiny of humans, just in a different way."

She cleared her throat, sipped her tea and added, "There's an entire monastery of blind "monks" who are really historians and physicians, of a sort, for the demons. Many have demon husbands and wives - though usually only the most human sorts like Nekomata, Kitsune and the like. The lord dragon over the province I came from is married to a blind awakened. He saved her from drowning in a pond."