Little tortie face 😻
No, she hasn't bitten since she was a kitten. She does like to sharpen her claws on the furniture despite being provided with scratch toys though!
I didn't think 13 year olds could be lawyers.
Yeah, for me the miscommuniciation was believable but I've seen quite a few reactions like yours. Did you try Ocean's Echo? The MCs don't miscomminicate much in that.
The aliens are dead (though mysterious and creepy), but have you ever read Martha Wells's Murderbot Diaries? A self-hacking security cyborg who would really eather stand in the corner and watch its media shows than do all that murdering, actually
There's more about the mysterious (though apparently dead) aliens in Maxwell's Ocean's Echo (same universe, different planet and characters)
Murderbot is such a fannish mood