"Please do."

" - Actually I'm not going to risk telling you most of the parts that would make it a good story.  But once there was a Clan leader who, for whatever unsayable reasons, left his Clan to finish out his days as a kittypet.  Unlike in cases where a Clan drives out its leader, his successor did still receive lives, though not the full nine, because he retired and - well he didn't go to the Moonstone to surrender all his lives but one but that didn't really matter because he only had one left in the first place.  Anyways his name is Pinestar, and he was the leader before the leader before Bluestar, and also Tigerstar's father.  He's why there's that rule about kittypets in the warrior code."

"...huh. Is Pinestar alive?"

"No."

"Can you and human-stars talk to each other?"

"No.  Somebody might be working on it, I don't know, but we can't right now at least."

"Is being asleep the only way for a living person to talk to you?"

"Well, I can spy, and also give cats words."

"I suppose that's not zero communication. Do you guys in fact send rain and whatnot?"

"Not my department but yes."

"Does anybody from other departments want to talk to me or is it just you?"

"I've got dibs."

"Does that mean they don't get to talk to me or just that they don't until you're done?"

"The second one.  But transferring is inconvenient and I'm one of the least controversial options; other people are more likely to get blocked."

"Lot of infighting, I see."

"Yes, that's why they have to do so many prophecies and omens instead of just speaking frankly like you and I are doing.  So please do be particularly careful about showing any favoritism between Clans, otherwise I'll have to stop."

"I will make sure I get computers to the remaining two Clans, is there anything else in that department I'm forgetting?"

"I don't think so."

"Do you want me to tell the humanstars anything, since you can't talk to them yet?"

"I bet there are an awful lot of kittypets who want to talk to their dead humans but I don't have any specific messages."

"Aww. - can you tell me if there are person-cats outside of the Chelford and Londinium regions, I don't know how far the lines have had a chance to spread."

"There's Skimbleshanks - the Railway Cat - and some kittypets whose humans moved.  No one has made it off the island yet."

"Okay. They have the Internet here so I can maybe publicize a 'is your cat a person' quiz or something once machine translation's ready and that won't dump a ton of work on you?"

"I appreciate that."

"What else should we cover during this nap as opposed to some future nap?"