[He thinks this over and, honestly, gives her a grateful slow blink for answering his question. He is doing his best to spread his questions out among everyone he speaks to, but there are a lot of them and he's still struggling to use the right terms for things.]

I see. The cats in the forest called them a Twolegplace - Twolegs are what we call humans. I'd never been to a shop before... my housefolk let me leave their den, but I didn't want to go into anyone else's. I had some housecat friends, but we only hung out in our gardens.

[The "Twolegplace" which his old home was at the edge of, was really just a small town. Even at that, his humans lived at the rural edge near a few farms. Visiting a real city would honestly terrify him, even now.]