Cat Lamps were easygoing by nature, willing to leave their own cat nests at any time in search of a new world.
Before Jiang Han and Xiya climbed back into the carriage, some thirty or forty soaking-wet aquatic Cat Lamps had already slipped aboard, meowing loudly as they demanded:
"Meow! Take Cat away! Cat wants to go outside and play!"
"Cat saw the Cat Lamp Witch! The Cat Lamp Witch will take Cat out to play!"
...In short, some aquatic Cat Lamps wanted to venture out into the world, planning to return to the Cat Lamp Sea and buy themselves luxurious nests once they had made something of themselves as cats.
The Cat Lamp Sea was an enormous Cat Lamp Camp. While food was shared, good locations were not easy to find. Unless they used Gold Cat Paw Marks to purchase territory around the giant cats, the Gold Cat Paw Mark coins they could produce each month were pitifully few; sometimes, they could only earn a silver coin in an entire month. After all, so many meows were refining leyline energy. Though leylines greatly liked creatures such as Cat Lamps, which naturally returned energy to the leylines, they still had difficulty providing an abundance of cat coins.
Naturally, some cats wanted to leave the Cat Lamp Sea and strike out on their own.
...Of course, Jiang Han could only see "envy and jealousy" in A Lin's and Bernadette's eyes at something so logically sound. A whole heap of fluffy creatures had curled up nearby, seemingly wanting to leave with Jiang Han and Xiya.
Since Xiya was still not fluent in the Cat Lamp language, Jiang Han could only gesture and meow her way through introducing herself and Xiya to the Cat Lamps, while explaining the benefits of following them. First,