"If that's such a surprise, you really don't know me."

There's something considerably tense in his gaze as he says that, and he looks up when the cat is removed. His eyebrows raise up, and he too pushes his own furry charge off of him to hurry to a stand.

"Seriously?! I get here, come to talk for once and you just— run away?!"

He walks after her, making a point of it:

"The first time we've had a conversation that didn't involve beating each other bloody in years?"