“You don’t think I tried?” She tried that route, she tried very hard when he was still a semi-manageable size! “When he first showed up, I tried to make him sleep on the floor. Even if I could get him to doze off down there, he’d just wake up in the middle of the night and crawl in with me”

It isn’t unlike having a toddler, though Shura has no idea of what that’s like.

“When it gets warmer, he might keep to the floor.” The actual answer is finding a bed big enough for both of them, but that would also require settling down, and when the hell was she going to be able to do that??