The only thing that didn't keep Beauty from falling off the park bench or flat-out shrieking at the experience of a talking cat was the fact that her brain initially rebelled completely at the very idea that it had, in fact, been the cat who had talked. She looked around quickly for someone else who could have said what he did -- but there were no men present nearby. There was one who looked like a really tall shoemaker elf at the table far across the picnic area - and there was another one who was just... he looked a little odd... But there was no one else here.
And then Kaylee seemed to be speaking to ... Oh, saints above. It was a talking cat! Beauty screwed on a smile as soon as she realized it, then as the wonder and absolute magical amazement of the real and true talking cat began to settle on her, the smile turned genuine.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Jake!" she said, graciously passing said tartar sauce his way. After all, it would have been difficult for him to have grabbed it without any thumbs! She giggled at the thought, but didn't dare share why she was laughing. It may have been rude! And that's what got her to stop. "My name is ... Well, people call me Beauty, and I'd be pleased if you did the same."
Outer space. She wasn't really certain what either Kaylee or Jake meant by that phrase. They were talking about ships, though, so perhaps it was an odd phrase for the sea! There was no sea around these parts; Beauty'd looked. With a sigh, she resigned herself to being lost for now. It wasn't the first time that something in the City made very little sense to her.
Turning to the first girl who declared that she didn't live her, Beauty smiled patiently. "None of us are from here," she said quietly. "At least, no one I've met yet. But we all live here now. Have you just arrived in the City? It seems you feel... lost. I know the feeling. It's how I felt when the City - this place - pulled me here. It was very difficult."
It was still difficult, if she were honest. The City had given her everything she needed to live, but her heart was still firmly with her family.
Dangerously, she realized, she'd also been making a small family of her own here. It would be very, very difficult to leave Errol if she ever had the chance to return home. The thought clouded her countenance.