These aren't new instincts. [Ben is looking keenly around the greenhouse - he's never been in here though he has glimpsed it through the doorway - ears up and whiskers sweeping back and forth. Okay, that's new, as is the actual form of course, but the rest?]

Feline DNA has been used to produce four of the five series of transgenics, including X5s. Of all the things I have felt compelled to do, attacking lettuce has never been one of them. [He's looking away when he says it, but it's that same super-dry, almost hesitant, barely there sense of humor that he's exhibited so rarely before.]