"Tea," she corrected with a dry smile. "Inej wants me to drink more tea and less coffee." Nina made a little face, but it seemed the better idea at the moment. Something to calm her down - she didn't quite trust herself to do it on her own just then.

She sat on the couch with Frank's coaxing and ended up hugging a pillow to her chest after she relinquished the owl mug.

"You know it falls on you now to rub my ankles and feet. I don't know many other men that I can just ask for that. And it should be a man, since it took a man to get me pregnant in the first place."