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Some days, she wished she could come to work and not have to use a combination of a sweater and a portable heater stashed underneath her desk.

Right then, however, she was grateful for it, with how separated her desk was from the main desk and the heaters they had over there. When her coworkers walked past, waving, heading out to lunch, she waved back to them before burrowing into her large, fluffy sweater.

Between the sweater and the heater, she was just cozy enough she could, in theory, fall asleep. Instead, she kept her gaze on her surroundings before eventually hopping up to walk around a little herself.

Doing so, however, she spotted something that certainly shouldn't be inside a library. Confused, her head tilted to the side before crouching down, knees and hips popping as she lowered herself to get a better look.

"...kitty? What're you doing in here, you silly thing?" Her voice was soft and amused, holding absolutely no malice towards the cat as she carefully wiggled on her feet towards the cat, almost waddling in fact.

She smiled and cooed encouragingly as the kitty came closer. "That's it, that's a good kitty, I won't hurt you, promise!" And then he was practically in her arms so she scooped him up and used the table beside her to pull herself up, joints popping again, a bit quieter.

And then the cat spoke, and rather than freak out, her initial reaction? Black face.

"You sound awfully familiar, kitty. Do you know Nix?" Her voice was kept low as she moved towards her desk, turning the monitor off before heading to Circulation.

"Hey, guys, got a little visitor here, I'm gonna go feed him some tuna, kay? Don't let anyone mess with my desk." And then she was quickly heading to the side room where library staff could take their breaks, blissfully empty.

....and even true to her word, she pulled out a small tuna snacks meal from the side. "...you like tuna? If not, I'll definitely be eating it because what the hell, my life is never gonna be normal again, is it?"

"I actually don't know why you're here, kitty friend. I just know everything weird somehow ties back to Nix. He hopped me off the roof one night when I accidentally left my keys inside and got locked out, and then I got to see...other-Nix and Pluto. Did you know other-Nix has lots and lots of trees? Really, really trippy."

Michelle let out a sigh, sitting at the table with the tuna kit sitting on it, chair turned out so she was still facing Arthur. "I haven't seen much else or learned much else, I just know everything goes back to him and people like him doing things. And since you're all...not hissing and spewing that he's evil, I assume you're good and not evil yourself. Kid's got a heart of gold, that one."

"I mean, it's rather hard to meet a place," Michelle snorted. "That's why I said other-Nix. I don't think there's anyone else quite like him, unless you're hiding an army of people with froggy abilities."

She fell silent for a long moment, before, "Well, that's...oddly not surprising. Not with how much I've just...noticed things. People. It's weird." She laughed softly. "Though I have to ask, is this a thing that people can turn down? Decide they don't want to do? Or is it kinda just 'you're born this way, baby, rock it'?"

Another pause, another snort. "No wonder you sounded so familiar. And I'm guessing those ears you had were literally your ears, then?" Her eyes moved to the tuna for a moment before back to Arthur on the table, giving a smile and a nod of her head. "Well, nice to meet you again, as well. I'm sure I can give you a better look around if you weren't so small -- it's one thing to feed a kitty, it's another to give the kitty a tour."

Michelle's eyes widened, eyes going straight for the large, floofy tail, though she kept herself in check enough that she didn't make an attempt to pet it, instead she gave a silent nod, swallowing before letting out a sigh.

"So much for asking for time to think about it. Granted, I don't really need time, but...there aren't many private places at a library. The bathroom is open to everyone if away from most eyes, and this room is about as secluded as it gets. Magical kitties and things or not, I can't really leave. The best I could offer until I get off would be the roof. Which is open but...not many people look that way, given I haven't gotten any inquiries about why I let Nix hop me down from there."

She paused before adding, "If you don't mind waiting, we could go to my apartment. That's plenty private, I live on my own, after all."

"Does that mean that people might come here looking, then?" She sounded curious and also slightly afraid -- but only slightly.

She opened the packet of tuna and found a bowl to put it in, setting it in front of Arthur without comment. Hey, she liked tuna, too, so she couldn't complain about him wanting it.

Even if, strictly speaking, she was giving him her lunch. She could probably get something after the majority of the staff came back.

"I'd hate for you to have to just sit and wait outside. If you wanted to stay in here, you could stay with me at my desk and just...carefully sneak away to look around. But that's also a few hours and could be incredibly boring, but you could also see a library in action at the same time? I get a lot of college kids, amusingly enough, despite being a public library rather than attached to the school. Probably kids who don't even realize their school has a library, but hey, we're here to serve."

She shrugged, opening the little package of crackers that came with the tuna and munching absently on it. "I also ride the bus, but you can probably just hide in my purse or something if we don't find somewhere before then."

"What sort of book do you want, or does it matter?" More munching of crackers until she finished the small packet. "I've got access to a lot of them, after all."

As Arthur finished, Michelle picked up the trash and put it all in the trash, rinsing out the bowl before setting it to dry off in a drying rack. "I think the kids would be amused seeing a cat at the computer, but yeah I don't think you'd get away with much of anything there. And if you sleep, just make sure I know where you curl up at so I don't like...accidentally step on you. I'd hate to step on your tail."