[Mogget studies Bailey in silence for a few moments, then makes a soft sound.]

Oh, it's you.

[They had never really talked, but cats do get around after all... and Mogget had been as much of 'no fixed abode' in Geardagas as he is in Avalon.]

'I don't want to die' is an an inherently selfish motivation, but that doesn't invalidate it. I've used it often myself. Sometimes such basic things can be far more motivating than the abstracts of the grander scale. [The cat sniffs slightly.] The smaller picture has its place as much as the bigger does.