Sipping tea was very good at helping to keep smirks hidden, even when you felt you were keeping them relatively held back.

"I'll have to meet your cat sometime, you know," Tisarwat noted. "I--"

She caught herself, though, before she commented on the fact that she couldn't picture Seivarden with a pet, actually having to take care of someone other than herself.

"---have never been a pet person myself," she recovered, "but I do have a fish...."

That she may have forgotten about making arrangements for while she was gone (oops?), but, luckily, that fish was surprisingly resiliant. It had, after all, survived being eaten whole by a Translator.