[Some of the wariness slips away. If this man were a friend to cats, that was probably a good sign. The child is at least a few centuries away before Hermann Rorschach is to even be a glint in his parents' eyes, but if he had a concept of Rorschach paintings, he'd consider stray cats and how one responds to them as something similar to indicate a person's character.]

Mm. I woke up in a house in the woods. Did onii-san wake up in a strange house too?

[He squints.]

...Did a ghost chase him away too? Is that why he is out here looking to meet cats?