She laughed a little and moved her fingers to carefully scratch under Tybalt's chin, propping her head up with her free hand and looking at him with the smile still lingering on her lips.

"That's what you call a purr? Quite the reserved one, aren't you?"

It was so much easier to stay in her zen space when dealing with animals. They were never frustrating in the same way people could be, even when they were being ridiculously difficult to handle.