"I dunno if I like kitties, normally at this point they would be ignoring me or think I'm a chew toy or a scratching tower and I'd have to run away, I have no idea why your kitties aren't doing that."

"Cause Tigger, Rupert, Oberon, and Felicity are the best!"

"It's still weird."

"Pick one up. They won't bite."

She doesn't pick one up, and doesn't move much.

"It's okay, she doesn't mean it," Martin said, clearly addressing his cats.

"What don't I mean?"

"They think you don't like them."

"And I think as soon as you stop controlling their minds they'll attack me," she explains, still not moving.

"I am not controlling their minds!"

"They're not behaving like normal cats usually do even around people they don't instantly hate, you're doing something."

"I asked them nicely."

"When I ask people to do things nicely they don't just do the things."

"Maybe the people you know aren't very nice?"

"Will you paint the room all pink for me and buy me an elephant, please?"

She shouldn't have asked the first thing.

Sigh.

"That wasn't my point."

"Mum said a while back we didn't have the room for an elephant."

"My point is people don't just do things when you ask them nicely all the time!"

Martin shrugs. "The kitties weren't busy or anything."

"Yeah but I don't think kitties usually fail to scratch me bloody just 'cause they're busy."

"Because you know my kitties sooooo well."

"Since you know kitties that well you could ask them why it is that all kitties always hate me. Other than these."

He zips off for a minute. 

Okay?