"What is that on your face...?"
"Meow."
"Meow."
"Gaahhh!"
"What is going on here?"
"Meow?"
"Face paint?"
"I believe I can guess the root cause of this."
"Meadow Thayer!"
"I should have known immediately. What where you thinking when you painted cat faces on those girls?
Were you making fun of them? Their situation is not a joke!"
"What?
No! I wouldn't make fun of them like that. I like them. They asked me to paint their faces."
"How could they ask you? They can't even speak yet."
"They know 'Kitty'."
They saw how I had painted my face. They showed me the cats on their dresses and pointed to their faces and said 'kitty'.
That's how I knew they wanted me to paint their faces, so they could be cats."
"Really?"
"Yeah, that's the truth of it."
"Well, imagine that. My apologies, Meadow.
It was an overreaction on my part."
"You've got that right. I have never seen you...
"Heeey... they really are part cat, aren't they?"
"You wouldn't be this upset if they weren't. So... what exactly is their 'situation'?"
"Meadow..."
"Meow!"
"Omigosh! Will you listen to Ceridwen?
That was a perfect cat meow."
"I knew it! I knew it! That explains why Bastet purrs whenever I rub her head. That explains why she is named Bastet--an Egyptian cat goddess. How is this possible? Did someone experiment on them? Were they test tube human-cat babies?" What does Ceridwen's name mean? And Hecate's? Oh! And their hair, are those little twists in their hair hiding cat ears? Can I peek?"
"Enough, Meadow. Just don't go spreading this bit of news around. They are under our protection after all."
"Okay, but this place has just gotten a whole lot more interesting."
