[don't judge my convenient plot device.]

... Yes. He was one of the people who was going to be assimilated, so she chose to target him as the lesser of two evils.

As students, we don't have any authority over that. That's apparently a tradition created from an incident far in the school's history... though it should be separate from this. In previous years, I think this cult was... [he sounds tired] just an actual cult about cats?

[hence. the cat decor.]