"No," Shamal answered with a grin, posture slumping slightly into his usual relaxed facade. "I was threatening the half naked boy in my livingroom! But if you're keeping pets I hope you do the responsible thing and get him neutered."

"That was fucking crude," Dera snorted, running a hand up through her hair before moving around her uncle to hitch up onto the counter. "Touch my partner and we are going to have a falling out." Simple and stark as that. If he wanted to get touchy about Yama she'd just leave and he'd never get her back.

Sometimes it wasn't worth it to pull punches.

...

"I never sleep for shit." That was probably the answer to Yama's question?