She startles and drops her scroll with a little 'eep' sound! After scrambling to pick it up, she turns and looks around, blinking at the fox that is plausibly near and definitely paying attention. "Um, hello? Oh, I'm looking for my roommate's cat... He's missing."

She tilts her head, then nods decisively.

...Damn if she wouldn't really like to have a translator right now, but she thinks she can manage something with a conveniently write/dig-able surface...

...She'll try charades, first.

She taps her nose with a paw, then looks around - and then if that doesn't seem to be enough for her to connect the dots, she'll try dramatically overacting the whole scent-tracking thing.

"You think you might be able to smell him? I think there are a lot of cats in this city, and I don't have anything of his on me right now... I was trying to use the tracking beacon Misty put in his collar, but I haven't found any sign of it..."

She shrugs.  Though the "don't have anything of his on me right now" produces a bit of a 'well, darn'.

But maybe.  And if he was particularly cuddly she might be able to find cat-that-smells-like-this-girl.

"I might be able to get his bed... But I don't want to take you out of your way. I'm sure you have important things to do, miss fox."

She does not have anything more important to do, and headshakes about it.