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"Turnabout and all that," he said I joined him on a bench and sat, e I can tell There’s thisenergy when you’re together" Not knohere he was going, I didn’t answer, just turned to hiht vision to see his face He needed a shave, and he looked tired, though he had showered and dressed in fresh clothes "But your cat, she likes Rick"
"Crap What did she do?"
"She rubbed herself all over hi of scent- Beast had scent-marked Rick And nohether consciously or not, Rick was scent- back Deep inside, Beast rolled over Mine, she ood," I said to her, and partly to Eli "My Beast feels she can have the-cats don’t mate for life"
Eli blew out a breath of derision "Yeah Tell that to Rick and George Two alpha ed "I know We’re not hu lived In the wild, cats each have their own territories The land overlaps with the territories of other cats, and when a feo to the male of her choice or they’ll coht If the female wants the winner, they ht run away or she ht hiht take her to another male But between times, cats are solitary" Which sounded terribly lonely, all of a sudden
"Youra revelation "Circling and waiting"
"Yeah I guess I don’t want thes my Beast closer to the surface It’s all so mixed up" My voice was curiously dull, une along the edges of , more a lack of interest than unhappiness How did people live with it? I shook away the thought and shrugged away the lurking depression, but it didn’t go far It crouched in the corner ofBeast Was that significant? I couldn’t see how, but s, when left unattended and unfed, becaativity and eventually depression I hadn’t fed off Leo since the binding of Beast Maybe--
"Jane?"
I looked up, realizing I’d been silent too long "Yeah Sorry Are we hunting anyht?"
"Rick said you needed to eat and then rest"
"Food, yes I’ But Rick isn’tyou would say that We need to go to the ue to make sure Syl took all the vamp heads And the Kid has one more address we could check out This one isn’t in Under the Hill It’s a house just off High Street"
I s even for his brother "High Street is part of the historical district How far fro your leathers The sleeve is a goner, though"
"I had the coet it fixed Let ain" And out of this sweater
We pulled in to the hospital entrance, htly of mink oil Jameson had tried to care for the leathers with just water, to avoid any cheh part of the tears "I’m sorry, Miss Jane," he had said, while I’d stuffed ht the sht be worse than thepredators" He had a point But I kinda had that new-car smell now
Eli spun the wheel and pulled into a space
"A forensic autopsy unit in Natchez Regional Medical Center," I said "Who’da thought?" I hadn’t expected to come back to the medical center for any reason, but especially not for this And if I’d thought about forensic autopsies, I would have thought they would be done in Jackson, Mississippi’s state capital
"Let’s chat about taking down revenants," Eli said "You suggested earlier that the vaht, until now I’ve never seen one," I said "Never talked to anyone who has There’s no vid on the Net Only a description by another vaers the revenant left hiht hand It ate the left hand"