Only Human

visitor's chair, one of those plastic devices supposedly shaped like people but that don't really fit anyone's rump. It couldn't have been comfortable. She was, though, since she was in his lap. "So, are we engaged?"
    "If you like. In the eyes of my people, we're already married."
    "In the eyes of my people, we aren't. So I think engaged is a good idea. That makes you part of my family. Speaking of which..." She thought about all she still had to tell him. To explain. Things that were known only within the family.
    Maybe it was stretching a point to call him family before they married, but he had to know. They might have children. From what he'd said that was far from certain... but with Grandmother involved, matters often fell out quite differently than anyone expected.
    And she was likely to be involved.
    Some traits were passed through the male line. Some through the female. Very few of the women in Lily's family inherited Grandmother's abilities; Lily hadn't, and she didn't think anyone alive today had, either. Probably it was a recessive trait. But Lily carried that heritage in her genes. She would pass the possibility on to her daughters.
    All her life she'd had issues about just who was and wasn't considered human, and here she was, more or less proposing to a werewolf. "Rule, you know that we sometimes call Grandmother 'Tiger Lady'?"
    He smiled. "I can handle being related to your grandmother if you can."
    "That's good. Because she's not a witch, like you thought."
    "Lily, I felt her power."
    "I know, but..." She settled herself more comfortably and began, "You see, lycanthropy isn't just a guy thing."

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