[Oh, he's quite good at that eyebrow thing, isn't he?]

I'm sure it had something to do with the shapeshifting fox spirits they were marrying. The better question is 'who thought that was a fine idea in the first place?'

[Hmph.] You're lucky you missed that one. We might all be trapped in the middle of a great big briny nowhere, but at least there's no torches and pitchforks this time.