[ She'll be sure to indulge in cookies later, but for now she wants to say a number of things and the topic simply isn't conducive to cookie-eating, lest she touch on something potentially sensitive with a mouthful of crumbs. ]

I'm— Oh!

[ And there goes Seisyll, nose pressed up against Ori's face. ]

You're a sweetheart, but I'm talking to your dad right now about something important...

[ She loves cat, but she doesn't to be too distracted by cat, so she carefully picks Seisyll up from off the table tries to get her to settle into her lap. ]

Anyway, um... I wanted to apologize... For a lot of things, but firstly for using telepathy on you without your consent. I normally try to avoid doing that, but at the time Eustace was so subdued, and I was afraid of disrupting that... But I noticed that you reacted strongly to it...