Yeah, a cat. I'm minding my own business, barely staving off just entirely succumbing to ennui, and a talking cat with a robotic leg shows up and tells me to come here, instead-- that things'll work out if I "replace" the person that I am, here, since the world I was from, well...

I really wasn't joking about the feeling that the world was "falling apart" around me, because apparently that's just what it was going to do, eventually. Just as a natural course of things.