Minha couldn't quite keep her eyes from widening as the cat became... something quite different, but also entirely, fittingly, the same.  "Now I understand," she murmured, rising back to her feet.  "Neither god nor demon nor elemental, but something else.  You're one of the Lunar Exalted, aren't you."<br/><br/>It wasn't a question.<br/><br/>"I wasn't Chosen for my knowledge of Essence and of strange signs, but even I can put together two and two when the evidence is in front of me," she answered, permitting herself a smirk as she let her gaze roam more freely, walking a circle around Cailana.  "And yes, I do enjoy a surprise of this sort everyso often.  Anyone who can't deal with a bit of liveliness doesn't stay popular in the salons for long."  A pause, then, briefly distantly: "Or didn't, I should say.  How long have you been here laying low, may I ask?"