I’ve been staying with Carlos and Kuro for a few days, now. It’s nice. I’m pretty good at hand-speak, to the point of almost complete sentences. Carlos does spend most of his time away from the house, though. When I ask, he says it’s because his clients live all over the place. He can take a physical form, and uses it to interact with the clients. By the sound of them, the only good thing about them is their money, which he then uses to buy all kinds of presents for Kuro. A fox shifter and a cat demon. It shouldn’t work, but it does. Somehow. I spend a lot of my time in the garden, reading under a tree. Carlos leaves his office unlocked, so it’s easy to just go in and grab a book. He mostly has fiction. The book I’ve been reading so far is incredible. A lost princess raised in

