"I too will accompany you abaord the Dauntless," said Chloe, as matter-of-fact. She turned then to Frederico, recognizing he creature, 'Maria' as an arbital cat. The claim that she was as intelligent as even the humans seemed unlikely, though she supposed it might've been comparable enough to make the difference negligible.<br/><br/>"You two are from an autocracy... Manticore, are you not?" she said, knowing from what she'd already heard where they were from and at least what kind of governance they had.<br/><br/>"Your companion...is a tree-dwelling cat originating from a relatively high-gravity world, is it not?" she asked, curious about the creature. The deduction was purely physical, as it happened, there were Var who specialized in the classification of life-forms.<br/><br/>"I am...Chloe," she said not offering her hand for the sake of appearing to be avoiding favouring the emissary who resembled the more-common space-faring races.