"I hope so! I try to look at it the same way, only I'm way too aware of whom my foremothers were. But...that's so sad, to think that your life would never have any joy in it! Not even little joys, like a pretty day or a cookie or a dance? It is, it's so sad!"

She barely had the chance to really enjoy her new home when she left Bgztl. She wanted to seize every chance to have joy because her childhood, too, was relatively joyless. Her mother is a formidable woman and she fears what her mother will do when she finds out that Tinya hasn't come back, has no intentions of coming back.

"Absolutely not! They walk on their back paws and wear clothes just like people do! Their entire bodies are like cats and they're the best little bakers in the entire world! And so sweet! I really love them!"