Chapter 305: Familiar Things

"Have you figured out a room for her?" Penelope asked, walking to pick up the tray from the counter.

"You don't think she'll want to stay where she is? There is light there," he replied in surprise at the question. He imagined that she would stay there for some time.

"There is light there, but it's not very cozy. She will probably prefer a room," she told him.

He groaned and rolled back on his heels. He never had alyko staying with him in the castle, and now he had two of them. He didn't want the Luna kept with the others where she could be vulnerable to mistreatment by his lycans, and when he discovered Penelope's exceptional scientific skills in addition to her Winter affiliation—the Winters being a family whose reputation preceded them—she seemed like a natural choice to help him with the Luna rather than one of his other alyko.

"She might prefer to be close to my room in case she needs something," Penelope offered, taking his silent pondering as an opportunity.