"I don't think so. At least, not that I know of. No humans could understand me until after," she pauses, not quite sure of a way to finish the sentence that won't just be more strange and confusing. "Well, that's a long story."

She pads a few steps closer, sitting neatly and peering up at the woman. "I'm Tonia. What's your name?" They can start with introductions before they get into sorting out the details of the second and now third of the nine lives she apparently has.