Chapter 18: What Cael Knows

Cael came home at half past six with a loaf of bread tucked under his arm and the particular expression of someone who had been in the library too long and was trying not to show it. He kicked off his shoes at the door, dropped his bag on the hallway floor in defiance of every reasonable request Evander had ever made, and went straight for the kitchen without taking his coat off.

"Tell me," he said, "that you have cheese."

"Second shelf," Evander said, from the table.