Will "Badcat" McDuff wrote:

   ....Miyu turned to her giant black companion, the light that streamed
through the window causing a gleam her eyes to gleam and sparkle.  A single
tear welled-up in her eye and rolled slowly down her smooth, pale skin.
"Shinma," she began, a slight tremble in her voice, "you, you...love me?"

   The Shinma nodded once, his head bobbing down in the darkness.  "Yes...

                                     -==-

   Usagi crumpled up the paper she was writing and tossed it in the
wastepaper basket.  "But the Shinma _never_ talks," she muttered under her
breath.  "Oh well, there's always another series..."

Actually, Larva talks in the manga.