" When I got there, I found that my broom was sitting at my desk, waiting for me.
“It’s not time for a lesson,” I told it, picking it up and setting it gently on the ground.
It jiggled petulantly (or that’s how it seemed to me) and lifted itself up and plopped back down again as though it were taking a very teenage-like sigh of dissatisfaction. "

― A.A. Albright , A Little Bit Vampy (A Riddler's Edge Cozy Mystery #7)