When I finally came to the woman who had raised me for more than twenty years, she was right in the middle of taking a break from work, rubbing her temples with this worn-out look on her face.
She got up to go get some rest, and that was when she noticed me standing off to the side. It startled her so much that she jumped. "How come you don't make any sound when you walk?"
"Colin and I have mated," I said, figuring that was a reasonable enough explanation.
A tiny frown, so faint that I could barely see it, creased her forehead. "You didn't drag yourself all the way over here in the middle of the night just to tell me that, did you?"
I gave a cold little laugh, pulled over a chair, and sat down without waiting for her to ask me to. "Of course not."
I put the documents down on the desk
