"I think it would be overwhelming either way," he answered, helping her with the rest of the papers, careful not to get any of them out of order. Again, he remembered when he'd first awakened, how difficult it had been, how frightening it had all seemed, to the point where there had been times he'd seriously considered never transforming again.

Sometimes he wondered if he should be glad he hadn't given in, when he'd yet to do anything to make difference. He knew he couldn't continue to think like that, that things were better now. The situation was perhaps a bit darker than it had been before in certain ways, but he had more hope.

"It'd be better for people to be inundated with information right away than to flounder around waiting to find it themselves," he decided. "It might be a lot to handle all at once, but it'd be better than being in the dark. If I had known all this before..." He paused, unsure of how he would have reacted, but he knew it would have been different. "I think, after processing it, it would have made things easier. I would have known what I was getting myself into. Instead, I felt like I was being dragged into something I didn't understand. If I'd been given all the facts, it would have seemed more my choice."

He didn't think the bitterness would ever go away, but it was easier to cope with now.

"I don't know if we'd be able to send it through the phones. I mean, it is a lot of information. Maybe you should talk with one of the cats to figure out the best way to do it."