"Socializing's kind of overrated sometimes," said Katchoo, unaware of any persuasion to the contrary that she might be undoing. She could have mentioned that she didn't have much patience with people in general, but he'd given her cookies and done nothing to irritate her yet so, in what might've been a miraculous occurrence, kept that to herself.

"What's the difference," she asked, having gotten a sense of the capital letter, "between those and regular animals?"