Why was it that Katie felt somewhat less intimidated by the third woman?  Was it appropriate to think of them as hers?  Thinking Betty was definitely easier on her mind, at least at first.  She hadn't had enough time to actually read through the pamphlet, but she sure hadn't noticed anything in there about being greeted by a cougar that stood up and talked, or escorted by a house cat to the school.  Katie quietly stuffed the packet back in her satchel and swallowed slightly, nodding along with the others at the simple enough instructions.  She supposed that they kept them simple because of the sheer shock of the situation the kids found themselves in.<br/><br/>She stayed quiet quiet, and settled into the bus as far forward as she could get.  Everyone always took the back seats, so they could be as far away from the driver as possible, and so they wouldn't be thought of as 'goody-goodies,'  so Katie knew that she'd most likely get left completely alone for this leg of the trip.  She watched out the window so that no one would think to try and talk to her, keeping an eye on the terrain through the mist-speckled glass.  The whole while, she was trying to make things make sense in her head.  A slightly terrifying thought struck her just as the bus was pulling up to the school buildings.  Was she here to get turned into.. whatever those were?  Was that even possible?<br/><br/>Katie let herself be sorted into the smaller groups, and headed off, as directed, towards building Omega.  Last House.  Strangely fitting, if you thought about it.  Once again, the misting drizzly rain had her damp but not wet by the time she scuffed her shoes on the entrance mat and stepped inside, looking up and around at the place, and noticing that the cat people at the airplane terminal had most definitely not been the only ones.  She even took the time to glance about at the other girls in her group, and blushed as she realized she was one of the youngest here.  That brought on another bout of staring at her shoes, and tucking stray bits of hair behind her ears.  Smaller and smaller groups were winnowed, until there was just a few of them left, and they all got confronted by a stout bunny woman.  It was all Katie could do to not break out into hysterical laughter.  Here she was feeling more than a little like Alice in Wonderland with nothing around her safely ensconced in reality, and she was about to be escorted by a bunny.  In a very very strange way... it kind of made sense.<br/><br/>By the time they made it to being her and one other girl with the bunny woman, Katie took a brief moment to glance at her partner.  At least she wasn't going to be the only one here in whatever room they ended up in.  She wasn't entirely sure she could take that.  Returning her attention to the bunny woman, she mumbled a soft thank you, and headed into room 232.  Her first impression was that it was Huge!  The whole room was about the size of a decent apartment back home, and even had its own kitchen.  The game toys were practically brand new, and the television would be to die for in someone more inclined to watch it than Katie.  The whole thing was just completely amazingly mundane.<br/><br/>Her eyes wandered, where Katie did not (Still standing a few steps inside the door, as she was), and finally came to rest on the one jarringly different thing in this whole scenario.  A big bushy tail.  She stood there and blinked for a few minutes, taking in the fact that the girl was acting so completely normally, all while looking so completely not normal.  Katie had completely forgotten about the other girl with her when she cleared her throat and called out in a slightly shaky voice that gave away every bit of the confusion and startlement she'd been feeling since the terminal building.  "Umm.  Hello?"