"Well, it's only fair, right?"  She blushed a little at the poke at her curiosity.  Maybe she was reading into it too much, but yes, she was a cat, she had that sort of inquisitive urge, wasn't a whole lot that she could do about it to fix it.  She listened as the mage woman laid out for her much of her own history as well.  It seemed like they had a lot in common in their past - Japanese heritage, though with different corporations; parental troubles - hers with her father because of her absent mother, and herself with both of them; and a very special talent - Lissie's magic, and her Technomancy.<br/><br/>"Wow?  You've worked the same job since high school?  That's..."  Musubi did the math in her head.  If the mage woman was thirty, then she had been working that job since before Musubi had been...anything - a Technomancer, a Changeling, hell, ever before she'd hit puberty!  "Oh, I'm sorry," she replied automatically when the Englishwoman told her that she lost her degree and education in Crash 2.0.  Even though it was both a good and a bad thing.<br/><br/>"Oh, no, it wasn't boring at all, thank you," she replied, smiling at her new...well, whatever Elisabeth was to her now.  "So, um, where do we go from here?"  She scratched her head (keeping a nice distance from her ears, she didn't want to accidentally reduce herself to a quivering wreck right in front of them).