Sawako Nakayasu

are crowded ギュウ very crowded ドヤドヤギュウギュウ indeed and so they are small チョコvery small チョコチョコ compared to their countryside relatives and so the small チビチビ Tokyo ants they communicate with small コソコソ Tokyo ant sounds クチュクチュクチュ and they hear each other well ピオピオピオ whether it is a panic sound タイタイタイタイ or a food sound ガオガオガオガオガオ or a dead bug sound キューキューキューキューキュー or an eating sound ムシャム シャ they can hear each other very well ハイ very well ハイハイハイハイ for a species that doesn't have ears. They communicate very gently フワフワ but quickly サッサッサッサッand hear each other, all of each other, all of the many numbers of each other very often and almost all of the time, except when there is a large デカデカ shiny ピカピカ Tokyo noise ザワザワ like a truck ブーブーブーブー or a ピチピチウルウル girl screaming キャーキャー or エーンエーン crying or a Western-style symphony ダダダダーン or something equally loud ドカーン during which moment the ants アリアリ cease to hear each other at all シーン because at first they hear the noise ドカドカドカドカ and then right after the noise ドンドン comes a slippery ツルツル ringing キーン swinging ビュンビュン noise that they nervously ソワソワ drink ゴク ゴク into the inside of their グラグラ wobbly heads ガッツン. And then they begin to hear each other again シューッ, シューッ as they grow accustomed ナラナラ to this ringing カンカンカンカン in the head キーン, they gradually モゾモゾ begin to コロコロ hear each other シュワー and the vibrations ゴロゴロゴロゴロ they make on the waves ザザーン of the ringings カンカンカンカン in each others’ heads ゴロゴロゴロリ, and the ringing キーン starts to warp プヨプヨ and warble ウラウラ a チョッ ピリ little bit, and that is how they find each other again so that no one has to feel lost for very long at all, no not at all.