"Keep calm, relax... This might be an odd situation for you yeah, but you have to play this carefully. You need to just act like this isn't the first time you've come across a were. You'll be fine."
Travis thought in his own mind to himself, as he carefully watched the giant, dark cat revealed itself by climbing down from the rock and sitting a safe distance from him.
Okay, so far so good. The only thing on Travis' mind currently, was the thought of this cat possibly sizing him up and getting ready for a kill.
That thought was diminished when he saw the mouth of the large cat open. The sounds coming from the cat were ones he hadn't really heard before... Was this cat trying to talk? Trying to say something?
Travis stared curiously at the Panther as he put himself into a relaxed position, as he leaned forward and would feel his feet dig themselves deeper into the sand.
"Are you.... Are you trying to talk to me?"
Travis asked this like he would get a response outta the feline creature. Wow, he made himself look like an idiot right then and there. Probably even an ass. The only being here that knew what was going through the mind of the feline was the feline itself.
Hopefully he wasn't thinking terribly of Travis at the present, because this was not what Travis was thinking when it came to making a first impression on someone.
Especially with this being his first encounter with a werefolk. Travis would be lying to himself if he said he journalism spirit wasn't on fire right now; All the questions he had, and the answers he wanted.
Very much so, were all the possibilities running through his mind; Like a massive rain storm nourishing dry and thirsty Earth that hadn't tasted the sweet nourishment of water in months.
This wasn't the time or the place for such things though, and Travis knew that. The one that was clear here, was that this was a were. This meant that he could understand what Travis was saying, but how could he get this cat to reply back.
If only he took more time to studying Morse Code in college... No, Travis had a solution now.
"I'm going to trust you can understand me, so we'll do this; Meow once for yes, and meow twice for no. Does that make things easier for you?"