"With a bunch of teenagers in the house, don't you think I'd take precautions? Lord, if Ax tried to drink it while in human morph, he could end up with the world's fastest case of alcohol poisoning. You know how that boy is around anything remotely potable." It's a reasonable enough excuse, at least to Eva's ears. She doesn't see the problem with it, even if it's not the truth. "You could keep me company a bit longer, if it's not an imposition."