“Aww, Ma, can’t we keep it?” he grinned at Alex. “She’s better than any cat.”
“You sure changed your tune quickly,” Alex said, hands on her hips.
“I’ve been known to be wrong about supernatural creatures in the past,” Nathan said, with a none-too-subtle glance at Sasha.
Alex bit her lip. “I’d like to, but how can we keep this…failed familiar like a pet without seals spotting her? I doubt they’d buy that it’s the Gatehouse’s new mascot.”
Nathan knew they couldn’t bring the thing along with them when they left, and if Alex kept the chimera in the Gatehouse it would eventually be noticed by other seals, and the results after that would only be bad.