Katt is a Secret Owl: Arguments For and Against

For:
 
1. She’s a dream eater. Dream eaters can bend minds and alter memories. She proved as much with Davynn. Not exactly a mind wrought from iron there, but still, I couldn’t do that. As a dream eater, she could have made Tuvaris think he’d owned an owl for years while she – or someone else – spied on him in owl form.
 
2. When I confronted her with this hypothesis, she didn’t deny it. Okay, she didn’t UNDERSTAND it at first – I wasn’t at my best – but Annie translated the gist well enough and she STILL didn’t deny it.
 
3. She has secrets. One of those secrets could be, “Sometimes I’m an owl.”
 
4. She knows a lot about Bowyn and Tuvaris for someone who HASN’T been spying on them in owl form.
 
5. She could have named herself after one kind of animal to distract from the fact that she’s secretly a DIFFERENT kind of animal (this one is tenuous).
 
Against:
 
1. She left. I mean, after going so far as to pretend to be an owl to spy on those two, she gave up pretty easily. Doesn’t mean she’s NOT an owl. Maybe she’s just shitty at it.
 
2. Her warnings about Bowyn and Tuvaris and the dangers of them being together were cryptic and weird. Again, not necessarily an argument against her being an owl. But there could be more going on here.
 
3. There probably IS more going on here. When I used to play dragonchess with the sarge and suddenly all the moves lit up and I knew exactly what to do next, it always turned out that the game I was playing was much smaller than the game he was playing. This dream eater business… I mean, it’s obvious. It couldn’t be any clearer that she’s a dream eater. But is it TOO obvious?
 
4. And then there’s the “coincidence” that I got so suspicious of her right after she told us that we’d been summoned by Nysali. What’s that about? Why are we being summoned? I don’t want to sound too much like Davynn here, but if this were a story, it’d be so that she could tell us that we’d been chosen by destiny or prophecy to defeat some ancient, awakening evil. Luckily, this isn’t a story, because I am sooo not up for that.
 
5. I mean, it’s late at night, I’m the only one awake (with the possible exception of Annie, who just sorta… spaces out… yikes), so let’s get real here, in the darkness, alone. What chance do I have against Chaos? I meant what I said to Davynn, about it being everywhere, in everyone, and that it’s essential – if civilization as we know it is to have any kind of future – to wake up to it and build walls against it. But I, by myself… am I ever gonna see an end to Chaos? No. I’m not an idiot. It’s a freaking concept, you can’t kill a concept. But that’s not what this has been about, is it. Haven’t I just been looking for a good way to die? I mean, even I can’t take my own stated ambition seriously. An army of kobolds? Releasing a dragon in the sewers? And let’s say I toppled Lorholt. What then? I’d put Davynn on the throne and rule it from the shadows? HOW?! I haven’t had a drink for twelve hours and my hand’s shaking so bad I can barely write!
 
6. “Kern could rule, he’s stable,” a little voice responds, but that just proves my point! I met the guy a couple of weeks ago and already I think he’s qualified to run a city? The whole plan is transparently ridiculous from top to bottom. Yes, I was high as a kite when I came up with it, but that’s no excuse. Chaos is everywhere, that is true. But my quest is fucking bullshit.
 
7. So what does Nysali want from us? Is she seriously gonna send us on some Davynnesque quest? I mean, questing as a sort of semi-ironic exercise in deconstructionism, aware of its own futility yet fundamentally unbowed by it, THAT I understand. But if she’s gonna ask us to save the world or some shit… that’s a level of commitment I don’t think I can get behind.
 
8. I’ve heard the stories about her. I drew pictures of her, wanted to meet her when I was a kid. And even now, there’s something about the thought of her wandering through Caeracht, wracked by voices that won’t just shut the fuck up….
 
9. Enough of this noise. Drinking time.