...Uh.

She considers running for a few moments. She's just a black kitten right now, there have to be a thousand others.

But that won't change if she replies, will it?

The question is how to communicate without changing her shape. She'll try to talk to him as she would talk to a creature on the astral plane, but doubts that he can perceive that. Most people who look like humans can't, after all.

A person. You don't have to act like that.