"Heh... Heh," Sally chuckled as they began loading some hir Aunt's boxes of monitoring equipment into the truck that Mina Snow had brought back to NASA's headquarters.
"And what are you laughing at, Ssssssally," Casey questioned.
"Oh... oh nothing," Sally gave another chuckle, "I just thought about how you were afraid I was going to rape you when I found you transformed and you went and took you mate while I was out... being just as "sex crazed" as all of us Kats are."
"And it isssss wrong for me to love?" Casey hissed back.
Sally turned back and hugged hir aunt to hir, "No. It is not wrong. I simply figured that you would not have adapted so quickly."
"Well, I did," Casey answered.
"And that is good," Sally smiled.
"Can we get going here?" Mina called from the cab, "If you're wanting to get all the way to Colorado, we've got a very long drive ahead of us. At least two days, and that's assuming we keep breaks to a minimum."
"Yes," Sally nodded, "The transformed animals seem to be calming down now that they've been vaccinated and allowing things to be under control that they don't need me here."
"And I have all my equipment needed to assssssisssssst the teamsssssss in Janacccccccccce with all the sssssssssssatellite monitoring work," Casey added.
With that, Ryles leaped into the back bed of the truck and then moved to help Casey into it, which made Sally smiled. Shi was glad to see hir Aunt happy. Shi also wondered what would happen when Casey met Jess again and could meat hir niphews' mates and their children, Janice, Pinkie, Fluffy, and Mary from hir and Charlie, and Silky and Foxy from Jess and Nikole... and perhaps the unborn kittens that Jess and Nikole were getting closer and closer to giving birth to. Shi put those thoughts in the back of hir mind and lifted the young Coykat and placed into the truck as well.
"You're taking the pup?" Ryles asked.
"Either the mother abandoned hir or got killed... or something," Sally said as shi stroked the back of the Coykat's taur half, "and the mother in me..."
"You couldn't abandon hir," Casey commented.
"I've been thinking of running an adoption service... helping human children of people who became Kats and children who became Kats with parents remain human... if the parents or the children cannot either accept or keep children post transformation of one or the other and make sure that they all have someone to love them. Charlie and I adopted two Wolfkats in Paris, Luna and Midnight, and..."
Casey looked closely as Sally looked a bit less firm.
"I'd been raped a month ago in the Cairo outbreak," Sally said slowly, "I was in heat at the time and I'm now pregnant with my second kitten."
Casey moved forward and tried to rub hir scaly sides against Sally's fur. The instinctive reaction surprised hir, but then so had the fact that hir own feelings of love and companionship had grown so greatly that within a few hours after becoming a Kat, shi took a Kat who had once been a mundane animal as hir mate, but a portion of hir mind, while surprised by this, wouldn't go back to the way shi was.
"It's alright," Sally replied, "My children know and Charlie knows... and they will love the knew kitten... and Charlie still loves me, dearly. I can't wait to be back with hir and our children..."
"And ssssssssssssso you can mate with hir?" Casey asked with a smirk.
"You are adapting well," Sally gave a smile, "You'll make an excellent Kat."
"Thanks..."