The conversation with Linda had gone surprisingly smoothly. After the initial shock of Present Nova's floating pancakes and the subsequent confession, the family had spent the better part of three hours explaining their supernatural natures, the Council of Elders, the Cosmic Department, and their current situation.
Linda had listened with the kind of focused attention usually reserved for detective novels, asking pointed questions and taking mental notes like she was preparing for a supernatural quiz show.
She'd handled the revelation that her daughter was a hybrid vampire-werewolf with the same composure she'd shown when Samantha had announced she was dating three men simultaneously.
The news that her granddaughters could manipulate time and space had earned a thoughtful "well, that explains the odd conversations," and the fact that Marcus was nearly a thousand years old had prompted her to ask if he had any good stories about historical events.
