The windows shudder with another heavy rumble of thunder overhead. The demon sighed, vaguely content, her wings tucked around her as she enjoyed the view from the shadows. Though they had yet to extend her reach for roaming beyond the apartment building and its local streets, she'd begun to relax once she'd sensed York's aura.

He had returned to the city after his family visit, arriving back a few hours before, though he had yet to rejoin her in the apartment. She was not concerned. No doubt he would have news for her, or perhaps he'd seek pleasure first; sex was good for regulating mana flow, after all, and he'd certainly left town with plenty to spare.

Though he still owed her dinner (yet another, atop the agreed decades) for being a day late. Though delays instigated by ties of blood could not be helped.