"Hey Cam, hey Cricket.  I've heard a lot about one of you; come on inside."

"Thanks!" In they come. "Be nice, Cricket."

"Harrumph."

"I have learned so much reading come see!  But I got stopped because I didn't know what enough of the words mean to keep going even though I could type them by hearing."

She appears to have managed to navigate to a word processor.

Jackie is a good [housefolk]

(Cam can read the transliterated cat word, though presumably the locals cannot.)

Jackie is a good kitty
Good good good good kitty
Jackie is a good jackie

Ians home
Outside outside outside outside now now now
Ian is a good ian
!
!!!!!!!!!
Ian is a good good good ian!!!!!!
Kisses for princess now now!
More kisses!

Jordans home outsi
Jordan is a good jordan!

Supper now now now now now now now!!!!!!!  Supper time now!!!!!!  Now now!

Cams home!

"You'd want to spell 'housefolk' h-o-u-s-e-f-o-l-k. Or you could write 'human' or 'person'." Scritch scritch. "Did you get your dinner?"

"Yes, but no treats yet.  Treats happen at bedtime but I think I should get extra because it's an exciting day; I got extra when I had my kits.  And Cricket should get some too.  What are human and person?  You keep saying person but I don't know what it means."

"A person is - it's sort of complicated but you won't go far wrong if you say 'someone who can talk'. Human is the twoleg word for twolegs."

Jackie ian jordan is a good person!

More treats good princess cricket now wanna!

She's not as fast as a human typist but she already seems to have some sense of the keyboard layout over hunting and pecking.

"I don't know the words to say the rest of what I mean."

"That you think you should get extra treats, or something else?"

"Why I think that.  I think my reasoning is very sound and they would agree with it if they knew it."

"How about I turn on speech to text, and whenever I translate something you're saying it'll show up there for you to have a look at." He does this and relays Princess's remarks.

"I like that!"  As the words appear she makes notes next to words she has guesses about, some of which are wildly incorrect but any of which are not.

"Yeah, that sounds reasonable, assuming it's all right with you," says the person who by process of elimination must be Ian, to Cam.

"Assuming what, giving Princess treats? I can do that. Princess, what kind of treats do you want?"

"No, to - uh, the cat who's with you, I didn't catch their name - "

"The kind Nicholas gives me!!!  They are so good!!"

"He's Cricket. She wants the kind Nicholas gives her, what's that kind?"

"Oh, is that why she likes him so much.  Well - " he looks around the room, "I don't think any of us knew he was doing that, so, not much help there.  - And even if we did it'd probably be smart to veto on the grounds that I bet they're drugs."

"He wouldn't drug my cat."

"Ah-huh."

"It's not his style."

"If you say so."  Handsqueeze.

"...why is this suspected?"

"Well, he's a New Year's; they're kind of evil.  - Not like me; like, on purpose.  Though in fairness not in a way where you can't have mutually beneficial relationships with them.  . . . Maybe 'evil' is unfair if you aren't already familiar with the associations.  Definitely at least spooky."

"Princess, you catch all that?"