"That's Felid native. What we're using now is Society's Lingua— but everyone in my family was taught it from birth," Quintet adds hastily. She's not insecure about it, exactly, but it wouldn't do to appear uneducated, "You have to anyways, if you wanted to attend the College— I graduated, just recently."

Sort of. Well, she's done with schooling and passed all her classes, at least. Listen, the Rationale hired her, didn't they? It doesn't matter why!

"Your friend has the name Cherry?" An odd name, for a cat. Fruit names were... well, they had associations. But it's not like Quintet, of all people, should be telling anyone else how to conduct their private affairs, "I'm Quintet."