Staying at Treat's house was still endlessly strange for Tanith, but actually sleeping, sweet beautiful sleep that ended with waking and not remembering a single dream or nightmare... that was an experience so glorious and foreign that Tanith was willing to put up with a little strangeness. Oh, sure, she hated herself for accepting his help, but apparently she didn't hate herself enough to leave. It's just until we figure out how the dream happened, she kept telling herself. Eventually she just might believe that.
Afternoons tended to be the slowest time for Tanith, appointment-wise. Mornings and nights, that's what the fangers wanted. Just because they could be out and about during the day didn't mean a lot of them enjoyed it. So with no appointments to keep her at Ad Gustum for a good chunk of the day, she'd grabbed some additional supplies and headed back to Treat's house. She'd let herself in to find him sleeping on the couch, and she'd almost turned around and walked right back out. This was too weird. Too weird, too weird, too weird. But Eztli had been standing behind her looking smug, and she'd gone on with what she'd intended to just to show she could.
To be perfectly honest, finding wards that weren't going to fire blindly and hurt Treat's cats had been something of a problem for her. She'd never concerned herself with that kind of thing before. Her wards always hit at anything that wasn't supposed to be there. Treat would not like his own cats being hit, or say, a paperboy who took just one wrong step. The precision wasn't necessarily a problem, just... new. She started with the easiest, and began layering up. First against vampires, an easy one she'd been setting her entire adult life. That was her start point, and she built from there.
She was rather absorbed in her work, and almost didn't notice Treat in the first place. She heard him eventually, turned, and just... blinked at him. Too weird, too weird, too weird. Tanith sighed and straightened her glasses. "Good, you're up," she said. "Give me your hand."