Vlad and Danny were arguing again.
Maddie lay her ears flat against her skull as the wind picked up, howling just outside the windows. She didn't like the rain, especially the hard storms. It reminded her of the weather from when she was a kitten. She'd wandered too far from her mother and gotten swept away in a flash flood. She'd been so lost and hungry and scared.
But it had lead her to Vlad...
Even then, she'd never quite been able to get over the pounding of the rain or the crashing of fallen tree branches.
So while Danny yelled something that made the sky outside flash with lightning and rumble with thunder, she slunk under Vlad's desk to hide from the rain that would wash her away again.