"OH! Well, I've never seen a helmet like that before... or... one quite like yours at all, to be honest. I beg your pardon then. You're not a cat, then? Why didn't you just say that?" honestly! She should have said that at the beginning.

"And I heard it in this direction," she gestured towards and past Celty. "It's very soft, like it's a little voice, not a distant one."