I'd have to ask the people who lived there first, I think. Some people have superstitions about cats. [He doesn't, but he's not sure how everyone else on the island feels about cats. People could be weird about them, especially black ones.] But I agree: places with cats are good.

[All of this is said casually, while he paints cats on her nails. He does black cats on all the purple fingers and white on all the green ones, because she asked for both and she had two colors on her nails so it only makes sense to match them up.]