Samsaara : Devadoot

The Office

I changed into my normal clothes as silently as I could. I could hear mother shuffling around in the other room so I used the Ethereal gate and snuck outside the front door.

*knock knock*

The light that peeped through the bottom of the front door reduced. Mom is probably wearing her long night dress, that is long and wide enough to block the light. She opens the door, glares at me angrily with a small tear forming in the corner of her eye. She turns around to prevent me The light that peeped through the bottom of the front door reduced. Mom is probably wearing her long night dress, that is long and wide enough to block the light. She opens the door, glares at me angrily with a small tear forming in the corner of her eye. She turns around to prevent me from seeing that, unfortunately I see everything.

"Did you eat something?" she asks as she walks towards the kitchen.

"No, I'm famished, what's for dinner?" I ask.

"Nothing yet. I will make something now," she said.

"Hmm, let me help," I replied.

Knowing my mother, she probably spent the last few days worried about me and not eating. It's not the first time that I have been away for a long time without informing her. Usually I end up tailing someone during a case and come back a day or two later. And every time it is the same, the first question she asks me is if I had had food. And every time my answer is no, mostly because I know that she would not eat when she is worried, so at least she would have a little bit of food with me.