"We might." She wanted to argue that a fish translator was a stupid idea, but here, anything was possible. "Horses... do?" She was going to ask about it, then she recalled that he had a horse living inside his house. She'd never gotten the full story, but it had been said in passing. The desire to ask was there, and very pressing, but she hadn't. She didn't know why she hadn't.
"Jake is pretty polite, but he's no normal cat. He's not really a pet, either, though I sort of treat him like one sometimes. He doesn't seem to mind. I do not think that he would like me to get a dog." The talk of Jake sort of cycled right around to Simon again, but she managed to get past it without bursting into tears this time.
She knew that he'd been a dog, but it still made her smile to think of. She, happily, had been nothing but a human. A cowardly thing to do, stay locked inside, maybe because she was a cop, but she'd done it, and she would do it again.