There's a moment after Daine translates John's message where she half-expects Martin to just start weeping, and between that and the funny little noise he'd made when she called John handsome, she can't help wondering if he's a bit smitten. Mithros, that'd complicate things even further, wouldn't it? Does John know? She gives her head a little shake; it's none of her business, really.
Getting a bead on John's mind had been tricky, but now that she's found it, she's not worried about losing it. They have what must sound to Martin like a one-sided exchange as Daine sips her tea, with Daine speaking aloud for manners' sake and translating John's side of things when it's needful. He has some strong but unsurprising opinions about actually living like a cat, which... well, she can hardly blame him. She likes cat shape, but she wouldn't like being stuck against her will for days at a stretch.
Food is the first concern, and John immediately makes it known that he'd sooner starve than eat cat food. She figures she'll have to go through Martin's fridge and cupboards and let him know some two-legger things John could safely eat over the coming days. At least that issue shouldn't be too difficult; she can't imagine Magnus's spell will last more than a few days, or a week at the outset. So long as John doesn't eat anything outright poisonous, nothing else he might try will have time to hurt him overmuch over such a short span.
(She delicately switches over to just mind-speech when asking about the possibility of a litter box, and gets such a desperately indignant look for her troubles that she doesn't even bother to pursuing that line of questioning. It's not as if he couldn't use the privy, so long as he's careful not to fall in.)
Really, it seems as if the most pressing issue is the one Martin mentioned right off: that John just doesn't know how this shape works. "Cat shape is a fun one," she muses as she finishes off her tea, "but it's always weird when you're trying it out for the first time." She looks between John and Martin, feeling a slight pang of embarrassment. She hadn't got round to telling Martin about this aspect of her magic, so he couldn't have warned John about it. "If you like, I could take cat shape, too, and sort of... show you?" It'll be much easier for her to walk him through it if she's in that shape, too, not least of all because if she gets too deep into thinking about how cat shape feels, she'll just end up shifting, anyway. To Martin, she adds, "Though it'll mean not being able to talk to you for a bit. It'll be fair boring, probably."
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Getting a bead on John's mind had been tricky, but now that she's found it, she's not worried about losing it. They have what must sound to Martin like a one-sided exchange as Daine sips her tea, with Daine speaking aloud for manners' sake and translating John's side of things when it's needful. He has some strong but unsurprising opinions about actually living like a cat, which... well, she can hardly blame him. She likes cat shape, but she wouldn't like being stuck against her will for days at a stretch.
Food is the first concern, and John immediately makes it known that he'd sooner starve than eat cat food. She figures she'll have to go through Martin's fridge and cupboards and let him know some two-legger things John could safely eat over the coming days. At least that issue shouldn't be too difficult; she can't imagine Magnus's spell will last more than a few days, or a week at the outset. So long as John doesn't eat anything outright poisonous, nothing else he might try will have time to hurt him overmuch over such a short span.
(She delicately switches over to just mind-speech when asking about the possibility of a litter box, and gets such a desperately indignant look for her troubles that she doesn't even bother to pursuing that line of questioning. It's not as if he couldn't use the privy, so long as he's careful not to fall in.)
Really, it seems as if the most pressing issue is the one Martin mentioned right off: that John just doesn't know how this shape works. "Cat shape is a fun one," she muses as she finishes off her tea, "but it's always weird when you're trying it out for the first time." She looks between John and Martin, feeling a slight pang of embarrassment. She hadn't got round to telling Martin about this aspect of her magic, so he couldn't have warned John about it. "If you like, I could take cat shape, too, and sort of... show you?" It'll be much easier for her to walk him through it if she's in that shape, too, not least of all because if she gets too deep into thinking about how cat shape feels, she'll just end up shifting, anyway. To Martin, she adds, "Though it'll mean not being able to talk to you for a bit. It'll be fair boring, probably."