"I wouldn't describe behavior like that as shy, but I'll keep that in mind." After all, Anani had hissed at him, more than once. Perhaps Trahearne had only startled the cat, but he was still intending on taking care around him in the future.

"I do have to ask... does that mean he truly is the only cat here? That's a large part of why I was so eager to find him. When I asked the workers here, they couldn't put a name to the kind of creature I was talking about."