'I see. Well, I suppose one cannot be held responsible for a lack of knowledge when that knowledge has never been presented. How strange, though. You seem very well-spoken, if I may say.' And of course, she could say, because she was a cat. She would say it politely, but she would say it.

Her ears twitched back at the mention of science, an unfortunately automatic reaction. Her world had a rather different relationship to it than this one, it seemed. 'That would explain the pull. I had assumed a major working was in progress, but it did seem most strange that I would not be asked first. Highly unorthodox and exceedingly impolite, that.' Her mental voice sounded somewhat more cross than her words, implying that it was a far larger breach of etiquette in her world than she was calling it.