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Jason was on tied into blue jeans and a pale blue thin T-shirt I&039;d bought at Old Navy It said PEACE in golden Gothic letters I hoped I didn&039;t look like I was hinting Jason, in an ever-appropriate New Orleans Saints T-shirt, looked ready for anything

"Hey, Sook!" He was buzzing with happy anticipation He&039;d never been to a Were erous they could be Or maybe he was, and that hy he was so excited

"Jason, I got to tell you a few things about Were gatherings," I said

"Okay," he said, a bit more soberly

Aware that I sounded er sister, I gave him a little lecture I told Jason that the Weres were touchy, proud, and protocol minded; explained how the Weres could abjure a pack member; emphasized the fact that Basim was a newer pack reat responsibility That he&039;d betrayed that trust would ht question Alcide&039;s judged The pack judg pretty awful ot to suck it up and accept it"

"You&039;re saying they ht physically punish a woman because she cheated on the packleader with another pack officer?" Jason said "Sookie, you&039;re talking to me like I&039;m not two-natured, too You think I don&039;t know all that?"

He was right That was exactly how I&039;d been treating hiize, Jason I still think about you as my human brother I don&039;t always remember that you&039;re a lot more In all honesty, I&039;m scared I&039;ve seen them kill people before, like I&039;ve seen your panthers kill and ht that was justice What scares h, but that I&039;ve cos if you&039;re two-natured When those demonstrators were at the bar today, I was soWeres and shifters without really knowing anything about the how they&039;d feel if they actually knew more about how packs work; how Gran would feel if she kneilling to watch a woman, or anyone, be beaten and maybe killed for an infraction of some rules I don&039;t live by"

Jason was silent for what see tiood thing It&039;s given Alcide time to cool off I hope the other pack members have had time to think, too," he said finally And I knew that was all we could say about this, and maybe more than I should have said We fell silent for a short time

"Can&039;t you listen in to what they&039;re thinking?" Jason asked

"Full Weres are pretty hard to read Some are harder than others Of course, I&039;ll see what I can get I can block a lot when I ed "This is a case where I want to know everything I can as soon as I can"

"Who do you think killed that dude in the grave?"

"I&039;ve given it soently "I see threeall three is that he was buried on my land, and I have to assume that wasn&039;t by chance"

Jason nodded

"Okay, here goes Maybe Victor, the new vamp leader of Louisiana, killed Basim Victor wants to knock Eric out of his position, since Eric&039;s a sheriff That&039;s a pretty important position"

Jason looked at me like I was an idiot "I may not know all their fancy titles and all their little secret handshakes," he said, "but I know soe when I see hione, I believe you"

I had to stop underestiht that if I got arrested for murder - since someone tipped off the law that there was a body on ht that would be enough for their mutual boss to take Eric out of his position"

"Wouldn&039;t it have been better to put the body in Eric&039;s house and call the police?"

"That&039;s a good point But finding a body in Eric&039;s house would mean bad press for all vampires Another idea I had,both Basiot jealous, orto tell So she killed hiht of it as a good place to bury a body"

"That&039;s a long way to drive with a body in the trunk," Jason said He was clearly going to play devil&039;s advocate

"Sure, it&039;s easy to punch holes in allexactly like his little sister "Once I go to all the work of coht That&039;d be a risk I wouldn&039;t want to take," I added, on a more mature level

"Alcide could&039;ve done it," Jason said

"Yeah He could&039;ve But you were there Did it see to be Basie shock But I wasn&039;t looking at Annabelle"

"I wasn&039;t, either So I don&039;t kno she reacted"

"So you got any other ideas?"

"Yeah," I said "And this is my least favorite You know I told you that Heidi the vampire scented fairies in the woods?"

"I did, too," Jason said

"Maybe I should get you to check out the woods on a regular basis," I said "Anyway, Claude said it wasn&039;t him, and Heidi confir with another fairy? In the area around the house, where Claude&039;s scent would be natural?"

"When would this have happened?"

"The night the pack was on the property Claude hadn&039;t moved in then, but he&039;d coure out the sequence "So Basim warned you about the fairies he tracked, but he didn&039;t tell you he&039;d seen soether, Sook"

"You&039;re right," I admitted "And we still don&039;t knoho the other fairy would be If there are two, and one of them isn&039;t Claude, and the other one is Dermot "

"That leaves one fairy we don&039;t know about"

"Dermot&039;s seriously messed up, Jason"

Jason said, "I&039;m worried about all of &039;em"

"Even Claude?"

"Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?"