(POV switch, previously unnamed PV character now Soren)
"I hope Soren likes the gift... This signed baseball bat wasn't cheap."
Alison, a good friend of Soren and owner of a spare key to his house (for totally non-romantic reason, of couse) was walking up the small flight of stairs to his door, key in one hand, bat in the other. The lock wasn't the smoothest and complained a lot as the key went in and was turned, so sneaking in to secretly hide it while he was having a lazy day off was a no-go but she had jokingly entertained the idea of knocking him out with it and leaving it for him to wake up to but a trip to the ER might undermine the joy of the gift.
"Soren, lazy ass, something for y-" Alison cut of mid-sentence as a large, bipedal, anthropomorphic, shiny black cat stalked into view, it's eyes firmly upon her. The attack lasted about 4 seconds, as Alison was already carrying the bat on her shoulder so before her dropped keys hit the floor, she'd swatted the pouncing creature with a squelch filled squeak. She moved quickly, glad she hadn't went for a signed cap instead, but hesitated as she realised that she'd just knocked a scientific mystery across her friend's front room.
As she stood over it, bat overhead, she watched the shine in it's eyes fade and it seemed to stiffen up, harden even, becoming like a chrysalis. When Alison prodded it with the bat, cracks started to form and gently ooze.