Erik Osborne

Her entrance leaves quite an impression on him. One of his thin brows raises in an unspoken question, but she's already posing him one of her own before he can get further than The Look. Good news, says she? It must be very good to set her ears flapping like that.

"Let's hear it already," he says in amused exasperation. "If you hold it in any longer your ears are going to fly off the sides of your head."