But she didn't. She had lived a life where saying such a thing would get her beaten, but that wasn't the reason a snappy retort didn't come to mind.
It was because she understood wanting to be alone. Her token animal was a cat after all, and most of them were solitary. It was the human part of her that wanted company, not the cat part.
"If anyone should be peeing on the rooftop, you would think it would be the girl in a leather cat suit, not the girl in a red cloak. But this isn't my usual spot, so I refrained from marking my teritory..." she added as an afterthought, "something called me to this rooftop. Welcome to The City. It happens a lot here."