Things got a lot more relaxed after that, and we ended up staying for lunch, which was good if you like mushrooms. For some reason the meal’s a bit fuzzy in my mind, but I know we had a big discussion about what not-Cain should be called. He kept saying he’d always fancied the name Adam, but Lilith threatened to turn him back into a doll if he chose that one and he eventually went with Shane.
“This is a lovely house,” Shane said, smiling at Lilith in a way that was sadly all too familiar to me. For a moment I almost felt sorry for the absent Ken. Still, maybe they could have a threesome. “Nice area, too. What do you do for a living?” he asked.
“I’m a herpetologist,” Lilith said. “More fudge?”
“Oh,” Shane said, taking some. “Isn’t that, well, a bit gross? I mean, looking at diseased pr—”
