"I guess it's just kind of hard for me to just talk about a thing when told to," Anthony shrugged. There were definitely way too many things on his mind for him to be able to coherently talk about all those things. "But, well, here's a good and harmless topic, I think: your cat is cute?" He laughed again. He really could not think of anything to speak about, but he didn't want to disappoint Elijah. So a half-assed joke it is.