It is, of course, befriending The Stray who takes up residence in your Lowend apartment.
I swear this isn’t just because it’s acute cat, either.
But this singular moment in Citizen Sleeper simply wouldn’t work if it were any other animal.
As everyone surely knows, cats are uniquely standoffish.
Previously, you were probably kipping in the same shoddy shipping container that you escaped on.
Or so you think.
“A handful of chits for some crackers should bring it out of hiding.”
It could be a rabid mutated space raccoon for all I know.
But hey, this is video games.
So you chuck some money into some crackers and hope for the best.
And you really do.
The stray settles a little and starts eating, picking at the broken crackers.
You don’t remember ever having been this close to an animal.
Somehow, this cat becomes an anchor point to your forgotten past.
It is alive here", and that means you could be too.
Not a dead, broken shell of another life somewhere else.
But alive, and your own person.
A sense that each of you might share something with each other.
A point of connection".
There’s an understanding between us now, and a mutual dependence that cannot be undone.
