It meowed

It was small. Both the meow and the meower. As adorable as it was, the meow had a very specific message directed at a very specific person:

Carry me up these stairs, human

The cat could easily scurry up those same stairs itself, should it but want to. Indeed, it had been known to do just that when no one was around. But at this very moment, someone was in fact around, so it stood by the stairs and meowed, awaiting the inevitable lift

He sighed, and proceeded to half carry half cuddle the meow machine upstairs. This is how things were now