There was a rustle of fabric and the sound of a mattress squeaking. “And if you can smell it but your coworkers can’t, it means it’s something a human can’t pick up.” Koyah’s earlier sleepiness was gone now, a little snap in the undertones of her words that reminded Leah of the way they’d met. “I need the address of your office.”
Leah rattled it off, hearing the sound of a pen on paper, then blushed as she caught a second sleepy voice in the background that she was fairly sure she recognized, and Koyah’s half-whispered apology.
“(—have to go). Right. Leah, just go about your day as normally as you can and I’ll be there shortly—do me a favor and don’t act like you know who I am.”
“Okay, I think I can handle that.”
“Good. See you soon.”
Once she’d hung up the phone, Leah did her best to
