Leo meows again. "He'd like to clarify that he would still have said you smell like a woman if he were used to being translated."
"I have never been accused of having this problem before. Maybe it runs in the family."
"I'm pretty sure it doesn't even mean anything, he just likes cattish insults. I don't think you smell womanly, for what it's worth. Not that there's anything wrong with that, women smell lovely."
"He likes that you're not offended. He's going to take it as carte blanche to insult you more, in a loving way."
"Feel free to neglect translations. My cousin's cat is politer. I think. He isn't a witch, so he's guessing, albeit usually in a way that gets her to nod."
Leo meows belligerently. "You're seriously going to argue that you're polite?" Meow. "Oh. He expresses doubt that any cat with pride could be polite."
Ari, lacking further avenues of conversation, performs a dwarfy magic thing and gets a lump of stone to play with. He attempts a bird!
"Nope! Picked it up from a dwarf I met. As I said, I'm not particularly a witch."
"Ah. I don't know much about magic except that I should not touch strange carpets if I don't know what they do."
"An unpleasant witch. Already taken care of by clever children, I believe, but the carpet wound up in my uncle's treasury. Fortunately I turned back when I went out under a new moon."
"It is. My cousin and my best friend both tried it recreationally later. They were very fluffy."
Leo meows. "Well, yes, that, but would I be cute."
"It seemed to generate pretty cute bunnies. Glynn was about eighty percent floof, practically spherical. He couldn't see until I braided his fur."
He tries to turn his nascent bird into a bunny. Possibly one with braids.
"It was adorable. And much less alarming than when it happened to me, since we were expecting it."
"That's good. I might have to find this carpet of bunny and try it, at some point. Likely with Leo out of the room." Meow. "Of course I doubt your self-control. I've known you for years."