but i stayed anyway

She feels embarrassed, almost, at how taken aback she is by his appearance. She can practically hear her mother saying, 'Don’t be rude, Gwen. People look different sometimes, that doesn’t mean we get to stare.' Her mother had, admittedly, likely never come face to face with a man with fangs who lives in a cocoon, but good manners are good manners.---Gwen didn't expect to find a genetically modified man locked up in the secret basement of her new workplace when she started this job, but life comes at you fast. Now it's just a matter of rolling with the punches.