Elspeth quietly crept over towards the source of the humming, which lead her to the outside of a door right at the start of a hallway near the kitchen. The scent of soap and the steam pouring through under the door clued her in to the fact that she must be outside of a bathroom, and she readied herself to unlock the door and retrieve James by force. After all, he was her property; she had paid for him.
However, before she could cast the spell that would disengage the lock on the door and grant her access, Elspeth began to sense a strange aura coming from James, whose presence she was able to feel emanating from this room, as she had so cleverly predicted. He was..... happy. Overjoyed, even. He felt warm and safe and thankful and loving. It was an utterly wonderful sensation that made Elspeth, even though it was something she was only picking up the very basic outlines and descriptions of, feel content and merry from this second-hand experience of it alone.
Elspeth, while mischievous and not entirely good, was far from evil or even maliciously cruel. She could easily tell that whatever James was experiencing in that bathroom (she had a few educated guesses as to what that could be) was something that he was experiencing a great deal of enjoyment with, and that in the moment it meant the world to him. She sighed, and backed away from the door. She figured that she could wait for the woman to come out of the bathroom before getting James back if it meant letting the boy have his fun. He had agreed to call her Mistress, after all, and this whole diverging route of him being bought was her fault, not his. So, she saw no reason why he shouldn’t be rewarded or at the very least be allowed to have some fond memories to take away from this ordeal. Smirking, thinking about what that ridiculous human of hers was getting up to in there, Elspeth went to the living room to wait. Her only grievance, however, was being forced to listen to that woman’s humming for longer than she would have liked while staring at the gaudy art she had hung up all over the flat.
Meanwhile, in the bathroom, James was having the time of his life with his new favorite person, as she stopped rubbing him against her thigh so that she could begin to wash.....