You and your cats live in a house, obviously, but when a strange liquid that had parasite eggs in it flooded the town's water, your cat Chompers drank some of the parasite-egged water and slowly changed, but you didn't notice the change in your cat until you woke up with a struggle to breathe. Hmmm.

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