Valdis didn't find it entirely odd that a friend of Anton's would know her name, but his name was quite strange. At his thanks she shook her head.

"It's less me taking care of him and more him taking care of me."

She looked at the cat as she spoke. There was something strange about him, something unsettling, but when the cat mewed loudly, she looked up to meet Hopeless' eyes. Anton had saved her life more than once and she couldn't remember a single time she had helped him.