Deep down, it was kind of a dick move. A dick move she pulled constantly, and if she wasn't mortal they might not let her get away with it so easily. On the other hand, Meiling didn't want them to start thinking of Marisa as some stray animal, that they could be exasperated with, but was kind of cute, and not worth the trouble of really getting rid of.

Why Meiling didn't want that was. Well. Yeah. "I probably don't have much of a reason to like you all that much, huh?" she admitted, scratching the back of her head. "It's not just because you're cute though, I think."