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[ The hologram is rather funny looking, walking in place through an unseen crowd, occasionally making weird arm motions that are either steering people out of his way or a terrible interpretive dance. ]

Okay. Nobody panic. There may or may not be a cat wandering the space station. Or. You know. Crawling around in the ducts. I'm not sure if he's in them yet.

For those that aren't from Earth, a cat is a small, nonverbal ball of orange fur with four legs. This answers to Niels.

[ He stops walking momentarily, but then shrugs and resumes the pace. ]

Okay, he doesn't answer to Niels, but he'll glance at you for a good four seconds before he goes back to doing what he wants.

If you see him, please, please don't spook him. Just call me. He's not a normal housecat - trust me we do not want him freaking out in a confined space. You should see what he does to his carriers.

[ It has, at least, occurred to him that everyone from an Earth is going to think this is a joke or perhaps that he's crazy. He might as well go for broke, right? ]

Um. Better let me know if you see any. Unusual. Light shows. And don't use any high-speed bouncing blurs of orange for target practice. You'll only make him harder to catch.

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They don't have a language! They're just cats! Cat people like Tigra don't count.

['Just' cats? *GASP*]

I should hope he doesn't hear you talking about him like that.

[Wing would run away from you, too. ]

He doesn't have a bracelet. And he couldn't use it anyway.

Look, he's not exactly a higher life form. He's my cat, and I love him but I've also seen him lick himself for two hours straight.

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It doesn't mean he can't overhear you.

[Said 'cat' could be right behind you, hearing you talk such terrible things. FOR SHAME.]

...so he's your possession?! Like a slave?

It means he probably has no idea what I'm saying though.

[ And all the cat would care about is why the evening meal is 4 minutes late.

Robbie looks affronted at this line of questioning. ]

Wha- what?? Yes, he's my cat. That makes me a cat owner. He's not a slave though. I can't get him to not unroll the toilet paper, and you think I've got him toiling away all day.

Are you sure of that? He never responds to what you say?

[DUBIOUS.]

[Look as affronted as you want, slaveowner.]

...but you've tried to get him to do that, with the 'toilet paper'?

[You MONSTER.]

He only says one thing! Meow. That's it. It's just the noise cats make. It doesn't have a specific meaning - or if it does, it means pay attention to me. And I do pay attention. He's a perfectly healthy cat.

[ Aside from the lab accident that have him powers, but he wasn't Robbie's cat at that point. ]

Uh, yeah? Toilet paper isn't meant to be unrolled. It doesn't store so hot like that, and - look how would you react if I completely unspooled every spool of cable and wire on the station? Cause it's like that.

[ That's a robot friendly analogy, he thinks. ]

Maybe he lacks the ability to make human words? There are other ways of communicating, after all.

[Binary code, for instance!]

....I would wonder what had upset you that you felt the need to act out like that.

[Poor dear, tell Wing your problems.]

Yeah - he lacks the brains.

See, but to a cat it's not acting out. It's playing. They don't understand acting out, they understand sleep, eat, play, hunt.

Do you talk about all your friends like that when they're not here?

[SO judging you.]

Maybe your 'cat' is hunting right now?

Will you stop acting like I'm some sort of terrible person for this? If Niels can understand that, then he's also heard me say how I'd bring a building down on someone's head if he so much as coughed up a hairball.

[So quit it with the judging, the cat is Robbie's best bud.]

That's what I'm afraid of. I don't know what he'd be hunting and if it's safe for him.

I just...wouldn't talk about someone I cared about like that.

[Seriously, if he ever meets this Niels, he's going to make you two hug it out.]

What kinds of things does he like to hunt? I could help look?

I don't think you're in a position to judge me. You don't understand humans and cats at all.

Birds and mice, mostly. Don't know if there's any of those around.

I'm trying to. I would think that people caring about other people is the same across all species.

[Harrumph?]

I don't know, but it gives us something to look for. Perhaps the market?

Imagine a species that gets really moody for no reason and can ignore you for hours until it wants something. That's a cat.

[So there.]

That's where I'm heading.

They sound like fascinating creatures.

[In his head, Wing is already drafting up the manifesto for feline rights. Please keep giving him material.]

I can meet you there? Perhaps two of us can search better than one.

[Since he's pretty sure your cat is mad at you.]

Well... they are. That's why humans like them. Plus, I think the purring does something to our brains.

[ Robbie will overlook some of the crap that's been said if it means getting help in the search.

Yeah, sounds good.

Purring?

[Some form of mind control? Clearly he has a great deal to learn.]

I will meet you there!
[And with that, he's off, heading down to the market, hoping he can find this amazing creature.]

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