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From the Cerebroscope archive

Z.O.M.B. LABORATORIES

Routine Animal Record 094-B

Catalogue designation: Black Cat V2
Identification: Domestic cat
Condition: Healthy
Reason for laboratory referral: Routine documentation
Research priority: None

INITIAL EXAMINATION

Normal external feline morphology.

Black coat.

Eyes clear.

Ears clean.

Dentition unremarkable on cooperative inspection.

Normal locomotion.

Normal respiration.

No apparent reason for extended laboratory examination.

Z. OMB

Healthy domestic cat.

Return approved.

Records

That was fast.

Z. Omb

There was very little to investigate.

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FILE REOPENED — 11 MINUTES LATER

Records

Why did you reopen it?

Z. Omb

The cat licked me.

Records

Are you okay?

Z. Omb

Yes.

Records

Then why is the file open?

Z. Omb

Its tongue is extremely abrasive.

Records

Have you never been licked by a cat?

Pause.

Z. Omb

Apparently not.

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OBSERVATION 2 — TONGUE

Visual examination performed while subject was grooming.

Numerous posteriorly directed projections visible across dorsal tongue surface.

These are consistent with filiform papillae.

Their orientation produces a strongly directional surface.

Records

They're the little hooks.

Z. Omb

Approximately.

Records

That's why cat tongues feel rough.

Z. Omb

Yes.

Records

Mystery solved.

Z. Omb

That was not the question.

Records

What is the question?

Z. Omb

Why are they shaped that way?

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LITERATURE REVIEW

Feline filiform papillae are keratinized structures involved in grooming and interaction with food.

Their geometry permits penetration through portions of the coat during grooming.

Records

Built-in hairbrush.

Z. Omb

Crude, but surprisingly functional as an analogy.

Records

Two good analogies now.

Z. Omb

I am not keeping a count.

Records

I am.

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OBSERVATION 5 — GROOMING

Subject observed grooming for 37 minutes across multiple sessions.

Tongue repeatedly passes through coat.

Loose material subsequently present within mouth.

Z. OMB — NOTE

This introduces another problem.

Records

Hairballs?

Z. Omb

Yes.

Records

You know about those?

Z. Omb

I do now.

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OBSERVATION 8

Subject approached researcher.

Subject rubbed lateral face against researcher's hand.

Subject then licked same hand twice.

No experimental stimulus provided.

Records

It likes you.

Z. Omb

That conclusion is stronger than the evidence permits.

Records

It keeps coming over to you.

Z. Omb

Yes.

Records

It rubs against you.

Z. Omb

Yes.

Records

It licked you.

Z. Omb

Yes.

Records

And you're still sitting on the floor.

Pause.

Z. Omb

That variable is not relevant to the behavioural assessment.

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FINAL STATUS

Identification: Domestic cat
Health: No concerns identified
Tongue morphology: Normal feline specialization
Anomalous properties: None
Research priority: None

Additional investigation generated: Feline lingual papillae and grooming mechanics.

Researcher location at file closure: Floor.

Cat location at file closure: Researcher's lap.

Z. OMB — ADDENDUM

Records added the final two fields without authorization.

They are factually accurate.

I have therefore left them.

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That gives us another piece of Omb characterization without repeating the other cat records. Omb isn't amazed that a cat exists. Omb just encounters a biological structure firsthand, realizes they don't understand it sufficiently, and immediately wants to know how it works.