"And if that feeling's lasted past my attempts to cook, I must be doing something right," Verity said.

Then, lowering her voice like she was afraid she might scare something off, she added, "Don't look now, but we might have made our way into the area of normal people beds."

This bed was still pretty weird, but it was explicably weird in that someone-has-a-hard-on-for-modernist-furniture kind of way.