[IT MUST BE AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE. HE JUST NEEDS TO TRY HARDER.]

Hmm... that's probably true for some things. [Hiking had turned out to be something far different than what she'd imagined from that book, for instance.] But reading about something is still a good place to start, isn't it? Doing a little research in advance really saved me a few times.

[When you were a magical, talking cat who was transformed into a teenage human girl research is very important after all!]