It didn't take empathy to pick up that reaction, but she wouldn't press for the moment. In her world, 'cat person' was accurate enough since both kinds she knew of were actual feline spirits. She'd never met one of the Mi'Qote before him. But she listened for a moment, her arms folded, considering and then grimacing.

"Yeah... a hundred years away from your world, from the place you consider your true home. That'd be ... again, I'm lucky. For a bridge princess, the bridge is everything. So... this thing you have to do. That's why you went to the second world?"