Becoming the Beast
My soul beast had slept in, but it padded down the stairs when it smelled the coffee. I put my cup of coffee on the floor and it started licking the coffee out of the cup. I got out a bowl and poured the coffee into a bowl for easier access.
I poured myself another cup of coffee and started sipping on it. I looked around the kitchen to see if Bader was down here and just being quiet like Aldous always ways, but no one was around.
I drank my coffee in silence for twenty minutes while I played with more and more complex blood constructs. I was rotating a tesseract when Bader came down in a gray robe.
"Already up, are we?" He said, sitting next to me at the breakfast bar. Whoever designed Bader's house clearly also designed Ravenkin's house and they really liked breakfast bars. "I see you helped yourself to my coffee."
"You didn't say no," I said.
"I was asleep." He said.
"What difference does that make?" I said.