[Shoves the cat off of himself (and it seems Miracle Country takes pity on them and doesn't make her jump back for now), reaching to take Porthos's hands and tug them off so he won't hurt himself.]
Porthos. You didn't-- you couldn't have known. It's like you just said, there isn't one single way these people can look like, or act. [There wasn't a way of guessing it.]