Melting at her niece´s sweet voice Alessandra took a deep breath of smoke and watched the ringlets of dark grey smoke rise over her desk.<br/><br/>"I´m just finishing up here, I´ll call a cab right away. You know no grendel would ever try to take me, special agreement you see. I´ll be home in half an hour I think."<br/><br/>For now Alessandra knew that Melissa would rather have her believe that it was concern for her and not childish fright over all too real monsters. Though Melissa was her own cousin the two of them had always been more aunt and niece which had stayed so. And an aunt´s duty was to protect her niece which Alessandra thought that she was doing quite a good job with.<br/><br/>"Why don´t you and Jenna have a cup of hot coco while you wait? I might be bringing something to have to it."