Anani continued to ignore Luthien's attempts to play with him, now investigating the ball that Valdis had been using earlier. He blinked slowly and then batted it down the hallway, turning to look at the inan as if he expected her to go after it. Valdis was constantly surprised by her cat and how he acted, but she wasn't here to promote friendship between the two animals.

"I'm fairly good at names," she replied dully, "Yet I still should have known better than to try rationality after having every single secret in my life revealed."

It didn't help that she suspected X's reading of her memories had had more impact than she anticipated, and not necessarily in the emotional sense. She had known he would sleep eventually, so she shouldn't have been nearly as shocked by it.

"I don't even know how we put up with each other most of the time."

Aside from what the fragment had told her, Aifaran was so different from where they had been that she was surprised they even interacted. Valdis didn't even know if the angel's words were still even true.