Today she decided not to come out of her room. “Her room”, as though this is a place she feels completely safe, as though this is home. Willow’s energy is dark today, darker even than the day she was brought here and locked here. It’s taken her all day to even emerge from under her blanket, and now as the sun begins to set and she’s refused the meals left at her door, she’s staring at the walls too ashamed to knock and ask to be released into the rest of the house.
The sudden appearance of a man’s figure startles her, but the haze of static washing over her skin, leaving her with that faraway feeling she’s been plagued with all day, keeps her from jumping in alarm, instead she only blinks. Something about him, she knows, is different. Her subconscious pulls to him.
“I think girls who miss their cats have business being this sad…”
“ You have a kitty? ” Conrad’s heels barely make a noise on the hardwood floor as he moves fluidly through the room, taking a careful seat on the very edge of her bed. She isn’t as put off by his presents and he would expect — he only just noticed he forgot to use the door like a normal, alive person might, “ What’s your cat's name? Do you have pictures? ”
For just a moment, Conrad debated an idea — the offer to bring her cat to her so that she isn’t so lonely in her current situation. There are, regrettably, many problems with this idea.
That might be considered insubordination, and the last thing he wants is to piss off Hawk.
Cats don’t exactly like Conrad all that much, especially at first. ( The whole ghost thing really tends to freak them out, much to his dismay. )
And perhaps most importantly — Because of an argument with Hunter, Conrad’s skull, or better known as his tie to this world in which he cannot stray very far from, has now been hung on the wall with iron fastening, making it impossible to take it off the wall by himself, meaning that he can’t go anywhere.
Basically he is just as stuck as she is, so he decides not to offer. Maybe he will bring the idea up with Hawk instead, “ Just realized I asked for your cat’s name before I asked for yours. Do over? ”