Are you saying a human gave birth to cats or just that your social relationship is more of a parental one? That's probably not important - why were you here in this cave fighting this pile of guys if it has nothing to do with your mission?

The cat considers it for a moment.

not gave birth. he decides. dont one hundred understand what is social relationship but it maybe that.

psychic cat showed monster cat thinks big rock is under ground with photos. doctor beanies said photos look like bunker rats. we went to the bunker and went down. then we find this pile of guys.

It's certainly a concerning pile of guys and I'm glad they got me instead of what they were trying for. Monster cat? Bunker rats?

monster cat is big rock cat which was killed. bunker rats i am not sure. maybe dr beanies was talking about the people in the bunker. also the bunker has rats but i dont think dr beanies was talking about rats rats.

Solaire holds down the spacebar for a few seconds, thinking, then continues,

pile of guys is pile of bunker people maybe.

under bunker is hot place and under hot place is pile of guys. the rock becomes hotter when going more under.

Volcano? Like this? Little moodboard of assorted volcanoes. The rock monster was also cat shaped or is this a separate thing?

Cat stares at volcano picture.

rock monster is the same thing. a little cat shaped. rock monster sounds like

Very loud MEOW for demonstration.

so we think its cat. but mom dont think so. doesnt matter. is one thing.

under bunker like volcano. bunker is the metal building in the middle of the desert. under bunker become volcano under become pile of guys.

Mini desk-toy-sized rock monster?

Rock monster is about a dozen stories tall, if he conjures something for scale, and is made of gray dusty rock, at least on the outside. Eyes appear to be some kind of marble or glass? If he checks the inside of its mouth there's something dry, sandy and with more give, but not in a fleshy way.

The limbs have rough, limited articulation but not as much as you'd expect a mobile kaiju to need to actually walk around—the rocks sort of grind over themselves, more like a mechanical puzzle than like armoured plates over a soft inside. It would make a cool desk toy.

It does not particularly resemble a cat in appearance. If pressed one would probably rule it more catlike than, say, wolflike or lizardlike.

It does not meow for a sound effects comparison.

I'm not really seeing 'cat' here. So this thing attacked you guys, you killed it, you got a rock out of it, the rock needs to go - in the lava?

Solaire takes a moment to figure out how to describe this.

there is a bigger rock that i need to put the rock from the thing in. otherwise the planet will blow up and also other bad things will happen. is what the rock monster thinks.

So the psychic read the rock monster's mind, and the rock monster believed that if its sub-rock did not make it to a larger rock that is around here somewhere, the planet will blow up et cetera? I'm sorry I'm belaboring this so much, I don't usually have so awful a communication gap.

yes

also dr beanies gave us sceintific instruments to scan the larger rock and what happens when the sub-rock make it to the larger rock. but sceintific instruments broke in fight before. maybe important i dont know.

What kind of instruments? Also, is Dr Beanies just this cat's name or do they have a doctorate?

dr beanies is a human. i dont know what a doctorate is.

Pause.

i dont know how to describe what kind of instruments.

How big?

Paws indicate 10-12 inches.

Magic?

Confused headtilt. Shrug.

sceince

I can make them if they aren't magical but if they are they might not work.

i dont know how to know the difference. you can try making them anyway please.

Voilà.

It looks like a bunch of industry-manufacture miniature spectroscopes and suchlike MacGyverred together with wires and stands and microcontrollers and things harder to identify, in a folded configuration a cat could strap to their back. It's not obviously broken or miraculous.

There's a clearly labeled start button among others, and if he hits it various lights and screens boot up.

He was gonna let the cats operate it.

Solaire will nose and paw at it a bit.

can you make the manual. it also broke.

also i dont know where the larger rock is. sub-rock becomes warmer when we goes deeper. but there is no more deeper to go.

Manual. And also surroundings that he can then take slices off to seek hidden passages.