Nero picked up Alex and brought him up to the bars to try again. While the younger neko swung around on the first bar, trying to find the right time to catch the next one, the older one stood right by him to catch him in case he fell again. He turned his head toward Koshi as he rested on the bench. "I suppose so. They've been a real problem, I hear." 

He looked back at Alex for a moment, thinking about how his own life had been affected by the bandits. For all he knew, maybe Alex was the same way. He had never managed to get the whole story of what had happened that day, after all. All he knew was that his parents had disappeared, so it could have been anything. "I wonder why there have been so many in the area. Why would they come here?"