the Travelers show up in the weird Victorian mansion
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"Not that he ever hears my advice," Tama lowly growls. There is no sign of recognition from Henry.

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She'll also eat the sandwich. 

"I could relay it, if you wanted," she suggests. (It won't sound to Henry like she's speaking a language he knows, if Tama uses another one.)

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Henry blinks at that. "What did you just say?"

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"Sure. Any diplomatic way to tell him he is kind of a dolt and should obviously take the books I showed him seriously?"

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"...I don't think I'd want to tell him the first, but I can try the second. What books did you show him?"

And, "Sorry," she says to Henry. "I hope the multilingualism isn't too rude."

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Tama pats the books she is sitting on.

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Blink. "No...?" He says slowly.

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"I'm sorry, did I do something strange?"

She looks at the books. What are they?

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They are intro books to magic and familiars.

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Henry doesn't really answer that verbally, but he is looking at her like she is acting strange.

"Uh..."

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Well, if he tries to hurt her for being strange, it won't be anything she hasn't lived with (or not lived), probably. Mia will be upset, but they can deal with that if and when she's here.

(She could have not talked to Tama in front of him - she thinks that might be the problem, though she's not sure how - but she didn't do that.)

She'll try to take some of the books, if Tama lets her. And if he does something while she's doing that, then, she'll know more of what it will be.

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Henry just... keeps eating.

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Tama goes against all her cat instincts and lets the human have the thing she is sitting on.

The book Tama lets her have is an intro to familiars, and how to call for one, or increase one's connection to theirs.

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She looks at it.

"Are you the familiar?"

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Unimpressed look. "Yes. His familiar," her ears and tail flicker in Henry's general direction.

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An intro to familiars would be useful then. She tries to read it.

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A familiar is a creature whose is bound magically to another, usually a practicioner of magical arts. The book notes, that from a purely academic standpoint, they are great way to passively train your magic into long lasting, but not exhausting effects. But the companionship is also useful, some familiars can even be used as messengers and diplomats between the material and the spiritual world.

The most basic bond of a true familiar allows, the practicioner to extend the familiar's lifespan and have a useful connection to extend other powers through. Some familiars may also use that line to grant back abilities to who they are bound to.

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Spiritual world - she'll want to try to learn more, about that, if there is one here. But it can wait.

"Should I - try to tell him?" she asks Tama.

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Tama meows affirmatively. "See if you can get him to do one of the exercises that lets me talk to him directly? If he believes you."

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"I'll try." No strategies for this that she has. So just -

"Tama says she's your familiar," she says to Henry.

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"Does she know?" Henry says, he sounds like the kind of impatient one while talking with a small child that is clearly saying something ridiculous.

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It's far from the worst of responses she could have gotten.

"I don't know much, but I think so? She wants me to ask you to do one of the exercises that would let her talk to you directly.

...I could ask her about something that happened while you were here and I wasn't. If that would help."

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Henry is eyeing her dinner and what remains what his own with a worried look. "Do you... usually talk with cats?" He says after a while.

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"She is far politer than you in that respect." Tama mumbles.

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She thinks this is that most cats in this world aren't people, and not that people-like-Henry look down on cat-people. For how what she can see and knows fits.

"She talked to me first," she says. "If other cats do I'll talk to them too. If most cats don't talk to anyone else at all, or each other, and can't, I wouldn't be different than anyone else."

"Can you tell me something that happened while I wasn't here?" she asks Tama. 

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