Brendan reached up and petted the bobtail, talking to it soothingly. "There, there... It's OK... she's not gonna hurt you.." He assumed that the cat's response was an instinctive reaction to the supernatural entity standing in John's room. "I'm...sorry..." he said, turning his attention to the Succubus and sitting up, "I really had no intention of actually entering into some kind of pact. I performed the summoning to.. I ..um... well..."  His face went red as beets as he nervously touched fingertips together in front of him. "Well I was... that is.... It was a summoning to, uh... w-w-wellll, anyway... I don't understand how it was that you got up here?" He chuckled nervously, making a less than graceful attempt to change the subject.