Ren's POV
"You know, some of us get so lonely that they forsake their animal sides and decide to pretend to be human altogether just so they can be with humans," I continue. "They have relationships with humans, even though they know it is impossible to have offspring, even though they end up being treated like outcasts and feeling like outcasts, never really truly belonging anywhere. Then again, without a mate, you do not feel like you belong anywhere, either. But that is not the hardest part. The hardest is that often, these Cats who take human mates have to watch their mates become pregnant and have children and pretend to be happy, pretend that the children are theirs, when in fact, they are not. The females who really want children undergo artificial insemination, thinking that it wi
