Cave raised a concerned brow, and took a quick lock outside. Two in the morning or not, he'd rather people didn't see a drunken woman stumble into his house. And he wasn't about to turn away a drunken woman to do on a ten mile walk in the middle of the night. Legal responsibility or no, there are some things that simply aren't done.

More to get her inside where people couldn't see her than of a sense of concern, Cave ushered her inside.

"Fine, fine. We can talk a bit, and then I call you a cab. Okay?"