The apartment’s doorplate said that his mother Shayla was home. Andy remembered that she was on shift rotation; she had the day off today, so he’d have his chance to tell her right off. He found her snuggled up in front of the family room telecom with her latest "friend." an ork named Chunk Gonsalvo. Andy didn’t know Chunk’s real first name; he usually didn’t bother learning stuff like that till a guy had been around for at least a month. There was a small phalanx of beer bottles on the table next to the couch; that, along with the early hour and the rumpled state of his clothes, said that Chunk had spent the night.