Lucea stares for a moment at her father, daring him to meet her eye. He does so without flinching.
"Is there a reason why you shifted so late? I have never heard of something like that before," she asks after a few seconds.
"I have no idea why we shifted late."
"And, you also used to smell like humans before you shifted?"
"Yes, yes. We were also worried about that," Beatrice says.
"A minute ago, you told me that the reason I smell like humans might be because of mingling with them. Now you are telling me something else?"
"Lucea, go to your room. You are going to drive us crazy with your questions. We are not exactly sure about why you are taking long to shift, we are just guessing. Forgive us, but we have tried to be as honest as possible," her father says with an unmistakable final
