"Maybe Princess's humans can find more? Or I can haul up some resurrectees from Atriama."

"Some who."

"Oh, I can resurrect dead people with some caveats, if you want to put in a request tell Felicity so she can figure out if they're in incarnable condition."

"I uh, stots."  She clears her throat.  "I will.  Is that good news for the cats?"

"Cats are caveated, alas."

"Catveated," she mutters, and clears her throat again.  "Are they at least somewhere nice, do you know . . ."

"If you ignore the possibility of resurrection I consider the cat afterlife broadly superior to the human one."

"Huh."

"Are we taking anyone with us today, then?"

"I think the most urgent bunch that don't want to be split up, ideally - unless you can put a must be adopted together flag on some groups, Ivy, in which case we should maybe triage across all the shelters in the area."

"There's not like an official system but sometimes we put up a little card or whatever.  I only work here vocationally though, so I would need approval about it and I've kind of already been acting suspicious lately."

"So valid. So think we should call Princess's folks." He will do this.

It rings a fair few times.  "Hyello."

"Hello! Would you be willing to metaphorically launder some cats?"

". . . Plausibly?  What's it involve."

"Adopt some cats, on paper, and then I whisk them off to the city I built in a cavern to live as independent persons. I was able to do this with no fixed address so probably everybody in your house is good for a couple cats if you don't tell them where you live."

"Oh, sure.  Of course."

Ivy waves for Cam's attention.

"Mm?"

"I made you up an address.  Or like it's a real place that I drive by, and we can probably make up some number of real places but eventually someone might check."

"Ah. Belay the part about not telling them where you live but possibly claim to live at a friend's house," Cam clarifies to Ian.

"Easy enough.  When's this happening?"

"Nnnowish? If nowish is awful I will find alternate adopters, you're just nearby."

"No, nowish should be fine - my brother's visiting but apparently you've met?"

"We have, if he would also like to pretend to adopt some cats he's welcome to join us!"