[It's... something they could find common ground on, honestly. If either of them ever actually talked about it. Sure, Riku had been a kid when the truth of the world was exposed to him and for Roxas it only happened recently, but... still. It's a shared experience, in a way. It's something they could bond over.

Or Roxas could keep saying just the right things at just the right interval in just the right way to make Riku want to just leave his cart in the middle of the sidewalk in order to shadow step into his bedroom and scream into a pillow.]

You clearly haven't been around more than two cats at a time.

[Stay calm, Riku. You can do this, Riku. Roxas is just being a brat on purpose, Riku.

At this point, they've turned the corner, and Riku can see the lobby of his building calling sweetly from the distance.]

I only have one cat-- [.....] One point one cats, Kory, and Komo. [He is not elaborating on those names, Roxas will figure all that out soon enough.] The issue is... the rest of them.

[Roxas might notice, if he takes a look around, that there do seem to be a good few stray cats walking along building edges and fence lines, now. Weird, when that wasn't exactly happening before they turned the corner.

It's almost as if something is drawing them in.]