[she doesn't mind too much. Nepeta keeps talking as she piles an absurd amount of sugar into her cup, ostensibly to herself but very obviously loud enough for Kai to hear as well]

Like, hmm...oh, I know! He's purrobably a world-renowned expurrlorer searching fur lost cities and magic relics and needs more money to finance his really expensive digs.

[she looks up at him briefly, eyes squinting in an overdramatic appraisal]

Or purrhaps he's just a tomb robber.