"I guess."

"We may hope that the revelation that you have politics will change this perception. Though empirically some of you still like being kittypets."

"Empirically?"

"Revelation?"

"We may hope that learning the new information that you can talk and stuff will help, but it seems in practice when you look at the world that some of you like being kittypets. Like Princess."

"Well, kittypets are like that."

"Not all of them, of course."

" - Right."

"Not all of them are like what?"

Dismissive tail-flick.  "You know, how they like being kittypets.  They're - soft.  Except not all of them."

"I haven't met a wide range. I don't think there's anything wrong with being soft, though."

"Sure, it's fine for kittypets.  - The ones who want to stay that way, not - I don't mean Fireheart or whoever else for any of this."

"I don't have much of a handle on your culture around that."

"Is there anything in particular you'd like to know."

"Not if it's a sensitive subject or something, I'm just registering that my remarks will all come from a place of limited context."

"I don't mind answering questions about it."

"It seems like there's sort of - pushback among the clans about kittypet lifestyle, like it's threatening or disgusting or something?"

"That seems accurate."

"Why is it that?"

"I don't think it's that; I think it's accurate that there are lots of Clan cats who think that."

"Well, what leads to the prevailing opinion?"

Fireheart looks like he maybe does mind answering questions about this after all.

Tallstar steps in.  "Most warriors don't know very much about what it's like to be a kittypet."

"I suppose that's unsurprising."

"And the things most do know are that Twolegs have lots of things that smell bad, and they made the Thunderpath, and drown kits, and they'll take you away and lock you up, and the Cutter will make you lazy, and they have bad food, and when they come out in the wild they're noisy and scare away all the prey.  And kittypets are the cats who don't mind any of that enough to not make denmates of them."