Rather than answer right away, Cho silently took his hand and pulled him into the guest room. A flick of her wand pulled down the blankets on the bed so they could climb in and a second pulled the heavy blankets back up again over them. Cho snuggled close to her boyfriend in the bed he had given her even before they had truly been a couple.
She guided his hand up to where the medallion dangled between them and set his fingers against the familiar contours of the multi-tailed fox etched on its surface. She knew that he knew the sight of it at least very well as she had not taken it off since the day she put it around her neck. "I found this in a crumbling box on a shelf at the Li compound on the edge of the Gobi months after Angdian had abandoned me there. Alone. In a foreign land where I did not speak the language and where any attempt I made to contact the outside world was subtly thwarted." The metal heated gently in Cormac's hand as the fox greeted him in her own immaterial way. "My loneliness awoke the huli jing, the fox demon, that had been locked away within this disk long ago. She had slept so long that she had forgotten her own name and languaged had shifted so that if she were not a spirit gifted with the ability to speak any tongue that she would not have understood even my thoughts."
She tilted her head back to watch Cormac's face. "She is my friend and I am hers at least as much as something inhuman has friends. She kept me from going entirely insane while in exile and my body and magic have given her the strength to start piecing the broken bits of herself back together."