"Socks," First Aid Kitten Fluff hisses, flattened behind a fallen hunk of rubble, "I'm still not sure ooze racism is a thing, but can you please stop forcing me to suspect it is—"
"Ooze King's got pincers!" Socks wails, from under a nearby car. "He's got legs!"
"You can't just go that's not an ooze, that's a crab—"
"Crab is a form factor!" Sandy yells helpfully from — wherever Sandy landed. "Like tree! Carcinisation is an observation about the parallel evolutionary emergence of maximally practical physical structures—"
"Stop helping!" Fluff and Socks yell at her, together.
