The cat rolled on to his back, shaking the earth beneath the boys. "Perhaps I am just very large," he answered Ven's rhetorical question. "It's a matter of perspective. Perhaps we're ALL bugs and you're just the smallest about!"

He seemed to find this particularly amusing as he began to laugh before launching into song once again, lifting one paw as if conducting his tuneless hum.

But then his head rolled back upright while his body stayed on his back. Staring at the two boys, his grin grew wider. "Regardless and forthwith, there are some insects in this forest you might be wary of. They snickersnack in the darkness and their eyes all glow up at you from the deep!"