There's only a short pause before Cat is nodding, looking and sounding resolute when he agrees, "That was a real misstep, friend."
He wouldn't have gotten so worked up if Li Lianhua hadn't had the audacity to bring his sister into it, wielding her like a weapon when he had no business doing so -- and for a cause that Fox wouldn't have defended. Under better conditions, the assumption would have been laughable. Li Lianhua really didn't understand the turmoil he put others through, or what they'd endure for him, did he? But Cat knows, because he knows his sister and how they would do the same for each other.
When he approaches again, his hands come up to lift his mask and collar away. After a small shake out to free himself of the confined feeling, he pushes his hair back out of the way with gloved fingers and brings his tired look back around to the older man.
"It's not like I don't know you're trying to look out for me. I do, you know," Cat sighs, then brings the same hand up to touch the skin around his right eye, swollen and discolored by the spread of grey scales. He wishes there was more places to sit available without having to drag a stool over so he didn't have to join Li Lianhua on the couch, but given the choice of the uncomfortable seating or the uncomfortable proximity... It really is a testament to how much he's determined to show that the miscommunication he's talking about was his fault, that he never assumed Li Lianhua didn't have his best interests at heart no matter what the other might have felt, that Cat comes to sit next to him.
"I can hardly move this eye now, heh. It doesn't even close anymore." He doesn't know if Li Lianhua's vision is even good enough to see which one he's talking about, but it doesn't much matter. It's all just to make a point. His voice grows weaker, the weariness he usually tried to hold back leaking through in this moment of honesty and vulnerability. "I don't have time to take things slow. Do you know how long it takes trees to grow? There's no way I would survive that kind of wait. So even if it doesn't work, I... I need to try something. I need to try now, before it's too late."
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He wouldn't have gotten so worked up if Li Lianhua hadn't had the audacity to bring his sister into it, wielding her like a weapon when he had no business doing so -- and for a cause that Fox wouldn't have defended. Under better conditions, the assumption would have been laughable. Li Lianhua really didn't understand the turmoil he put others through, or what they'd endure for him, did he? But Cat knows, because he knows his sister and how they would do the same for each other.
When he approaches again, his hands come up to lift his mask and collar away. After a small shake out to free himself of the confined feeling, he pushes his hair back out of the way with gloved fingers and brings his tired look back around to the older man.
"It's not like I don't know you're trying to look out for me. I do, you know," Cat sighs, then brings the same hand up to touch the skin around his right eye, swollen and discolored by the spread of grey scales. He wishes there was more places to sit available without having to drag a stool over so he didn't have to join Li Lianhua on the couch, but given the choice of the uncomfortable seating or the uncomfortable proximity... It really is a testament to how much he's determined to show that the miscommunication he's talking about was his fault, that he never assumed Li Lianhua didn't have his best interests at heart no matter what the other might have felt, that Cat comes to sit next to him.
"I can hardly move this eye now, heh. It doesn't even close anymore." He doesn't know if Li Lianhua's vision is even good enough to see which one he's talking about, but it doesn't much matter. It's all just to make a point. His voice grows weaker, the weariness he usually tried to hold back leaking through in this moment of honesty and vulnerability. "I don't have time to take things slow. Do you know how long it takes trees to grow? There's no way I would survive that kind of wait. So even if it doesn't work, I... I need to try something. I need to try now, before it's too late."