I'd like to see you try. [And he might even be a little perturbed if she could. It'd feel like somehow she was getting too close, or maybe the workplace were intruding too much on his personal life.]

You know, the instant you tell a manticore it's something personal, they want to find out. It's just something that happens, like shades floating through things or werewolves smelling like all of hell just belched up.