The cat seems happy with this turn of events, and promptly starts purring.

A few hours after that, Angelique taps her knuckles against one of the shelves that borders the nook.

- yeah?

"I brought you a sandwich," Angelique says. "I see you've met Monarch."

The cat opens one eye lazily, and dismisses Angelique with a flick of her tail.

She nods and extracts a hand from under the blanket.

Angelique hands over the plate. "Cats go where they please," she says conversationally. "I've never found a way to dissuade them yet..."

She nods again, and eats; it seems to take a fair bit of her attention to keep her hands moving how she wants them to.

"I'll leave you be, I'll come back for the plate later," Angelique says, and does exactly that.

She eats. And... nobody's here but her and the cat; she checks, staying very quiet for a few moments to make sure there's no sounds from elsewhere in the library... carefully magics a mouthful of water out of the bottle on the table and to herself, and then goes back to sleep.

Angelique sneaks in maybe an hour after delivering the sandwich, to retrieve the plate, and leave another open bottle of water on the table.

Denice sleeps through it without stirring.

Angelique pauses for a heartbeat, smiling. Good. The girl needs it.

Then she leaves.

Eventually, Esca pads into the room, sniffs Monarch, and then rests his head beside the cat.

She murmurs something indistinct and opens her eyes, grinning when she sees Esca and freeing her hand again for petting.

Esca's tail starts thumping happily against the floor.

Monarch butts her head against Denice's hand, obviously not willing to let Esca get all the attention.

Aww. She frees her other hand and rests it on Esca's head while she pets the cat.

Monarch rubs her head against Denice's hand and her purring intensifies.

Esca leans a little heavier against Denice, apparently just as happy to just have her hand on his head as to get pets.

A little while later, Drex sticks his head around the corner of the nook, rapping his knuckles on the shelf.

She's still slightly buried in creatures, but looks up when he knocks.

"Feel better?"

The creatures don't move, although they both glance at Drex.