Absolutely!
Time for another update.
Tempest's enforced visits to the rest of the house have continued. She is most comfortable in the office, but her comfort zone has expanded now to include the bathroom and half of the hall. She will play a bit in the dining room and sit with my husband on the couch in the living room. The living room itself is still too scary for her to leave the couch, but when he started she wouldn't let him sit down with her so just sitting with him is an improvement.
Every time Sinbad is let back into the main house after her visits, he thoroughly explores every inch of where she's been.
In terms of their interactions - it's still about the same, with one odd difference. Sometimes when she hisses at him now, it's done without any aggressive body language. I don't know what to make of it, but hissing without aggressive posturing seems like an improvement over hissing with aggression? Can anyone interpret what that might mean for me? I was watching it just now, and it almost seemed like they were playing, but wasn't quite where I would call it play. But it still wasn't hostile, despite the hissing.
She's not backing down anymore either. Even when she is aggressively hissing, she'll stay right where she is. She used to hiss, claw and then run to hide. Now when she's being hostile she hisses and swipes (I'll note that even when she does swipe she keeps her claws retracted) but stays put and he's the one who ends up backing away.
So it's another small step forward overall, I think?
I agree that hissing without posturing is an improvement... like it's all winding down. Hopefully slowly that, too will just fade away. My two will still have a hiss at each other - often it's one cat's way of saying they don't want to play or have had enough of a game.
Things seem to be going well with these two.. slow is good.