"You know, that was almost as if you could understand me, which in a place like this is a little bit weird."

But was really hard to feel threatened by a cat, and especially since this castle must be one of the safest places in the world, surely?

"You know something? I have lived in England for something like twenty years, and I come from the other side of the veil... and all of this is still absolutely astonishing. I feel like I've been living in some sort of weird bubble or something."

She sighed a little and moved her hand once more to stroke the soft fur on Tybalt's back. She wasn't entirely sure where all these words were coming from. Perhaps she just missed her father, who was the one she usually talked to about pretty much everything.

"And I'm supposed to be intelligent, you know?"