Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, #1)

by Seanan McGuire

“If you honestly expect me to believe you can’t get up to the roof whenever you feel like it, you must think I’m one stupid human,” he says. The cat meows again. “Okay, you think all humans are stupid,” says Roger.

She gets noticed. But being noticed is not the same thing as being paid attention to: being noticed is something that can be used, and being paid attention to is something that can get you killed. The difference is subtle.