His ears may twitch slightly toward her: clearly, they aren't merely cosmetic, but a part of him.

"Hmmm, you'll find this place to resemble a cross between that Midsummer's Night Dream and The Tempest and more. The fanciful for most worlds is the norm here. Though that does nothing to detract from it," he says.

"It happened in the last days of the dream that birthed this world. A lady whom I was friends with was trading canned goods for some of her chattels, and that included some peculiar hard sweets. She'd been a good friend, so I traded with her. To my amusement and puzzlement, after eating some, I found myself turning into a half-cat, half-man creature, if you can imagine a man with the ears, limbs and tail of a cat. I suspect the creature who's been sporting with us by offering us chocolates may have concocted those same sweets."