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A cat.

Leila stood there and looked at the transportation the queen had assigned them, which was an enormous cat.. With a hollow body with windows. And ten legs. And hollow, glowing eyes that stared blankly forward.

[i]How absolutely adorable.[/i]

Leila brought both of her hands up to cover the gasp of excitement that escaped her mouth, her eyes wide in amazement. What a beautiful creature! Or was it even a creature at all? What was its body structure like? How did this evolve? Everything about this cat was so exciting - she felt an urge to give it a giant hug - of course, there was no way Leila would be able to fully hug that monstrosity, but still - she almost wanted to keep it as a pet. How did this thing [i]function[/i]? What was [i]inside[/i]?

Before Leila even got to the thought of having her curiosity satisfied, she was dragged into the wide gaping mouth of the cat-bus-hybrid - which was supposed to serve as an entrance and exit, apparently. The one dragging her also grabbed Jasper with the other hand - she was one of the newly arrived humans, dressed in a windcoat and with short, straight hair that was coloured a vivid orange. She seemed to be one of the few people who shared Leila’s excitement about boarding the cat-bus (a group which, incidentally, excluded the white-haired, hooded Vincent). Moving quite incoherently along on the supporting surface that was the cat’s saliva-covered tongue, Leila’s feet weren’t doing much of propelling her along, but were merely keeping her from collapsing onto the ground as Riley towed her by the arm.

Its tongue, its teeth, the inside of the cat’s mouth - and the residue food that was sticking in various places and their terrible smell. The girl gleefully marvelled at every part of the insides of the catbus that met her sight, even for seconds. Such interesting structures - such a pity that she didn’t know nearly enough biology. She’ll most definitely need to research that - when she got back -

- oh.

And then the catbus took flight.

Leila did not even remember them arriving at what she supposed to be the passenger area for the bus- a quite spacious area, with large openings on the sides that were presumed to be windows, but without glass panels. That being said, Leila was lucky not to have fallen out of one of them, when the sudden acceleration swept her again off her feet. The fashion in which she crashed into one wall of the catbus, back first and rest of the body following, folding into an uncomfortable curled shape on the back of the seats with one leg having nowhere to go and sticking half into the aisle in the middle - that would not be considered as much of a result of a lucky incident.

The catbus moved forward in a cycle of much like that of a land-bound feline, except it moved in the air, ten legs repeating the same cycle that originally involved only four; and each tightening and extending of the spine were jolts in the archs of the unstable path of flight taken. Trying to remain standing in such a vehicle was like trying to remain standing when the direction of gravity changes randomly six times every second.

The seats lined the sides of the catbus and were cushions and coated in...fur? What kind of creature has the inside of a digestive system coated in fur? What else was the mouth supposed to lead to? Did it even [i]have[/i] a digestive system?

It took some time for Leila’s efforts to regain a relatively normal position in her seat, and to look around and come to the conclusion that this majestic creature, like much of everything in Nowhere, was not to be made sense of by the rational mind.

A few of the other humans were sitting in nearby seats. Right besides her was Vincent, who was so determined not to take this ride at first. He was now clutching the back of the seats in front, apparently uncomfortable.

Everything still smelt like half-digested fish.