[The cat's soft insistence makes him smile -- it's a twisted expression, with the obvious scars on his left side, but luckily animals are less particular about human expressions than humans themselves. Scritches are obligingly distributed before Kariya speaks up again, voice no better than before--]

The same thing that happened to everything else. Don't mind it. [That's not what he came for. At the same time, he's not sure how much to explain, since it all ties together in the end.] But it does mean I'm on a liquid diet for the moment.

[And for the foreseeable future, though he refrains from disclosing that part.]

... It does help to hear that your supplies check out.