"He's very nice," Sakaki assured Harry, although, really, the fact that he was even allowing Sakaki to pet him, let alone enjoying it, should be speaking volumes. Not a scratch or a bite to be seen!

And it almost seemed as though Sakaki was going to just leave it at that, and continue just petting Maya and generally forgetting that Harry was even there, but spending the week with her old school friends reminded her a little bit about how interacting with other people worked.

"Did you have a good trip home?" she asked, in her best attempt at conversationally, which was just a little too distracted by cat to have managed to get it quite right.