[And now he'll sit down, absently examining one immaculately clean forepaw rather than looking up at the towering dog.]

It may amuse the Malnosso to give me the seeming of a cat, with a cat's impulses and tastes, but I refuse to be one. And as for the other half, you seemed content enough with my other self.

[Read: you never called, so I didn't come out. Well, he technically had, behind Touya's back, but that wasn't important right now.]