Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Help/Tips/Tricks Keeping the black cat alive

Brand new at this game and a black cat is tagging along but as I am following the prompts on the map as to who to talk to next I am chatting at a gate with the target npc and the guards just kill the cat.... no dialog and resurrection can’t be put on the cat.

Have I missed something glaringly obvious?

I am a cat lover and my own cat is black and looks (shorthair) quite a bit like the cat in the game so this is rather upsetting if I can’t keep it alive this early in the game when I am puzzling out the ‘rules' we are playing by.

Hints and full answers or work arounds received with gratitude as it is making it impossible to proceed past this point with the nice kitten dead in the dust.