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Jennie let hiood ent Everett was already on a first-naain, was she like ents, or was she an artist--with the credentials to work on FBI cases? He gave hian that had brought her to town, Sloan wasn’t pleased about her being here, but he wasn’t sure why
Yes, he needed to find out who the skull belonged to But logically, in his opinion at least, the skull should have been sent off to a lab where such things were done or to the experts at awith Henri Coque about procedure--Sloan had been the one to call Logan to ask for a forensic artist and Logan had sent her He’d trusted Logan to send hian was a different kind of lawan had shared secrets that they hadn’t let on to others Working cases together, they’d both had occasion to follow leads because they’d spoken to the dead
Sloan didn’t walk around interacting with spirits all the tinized the ability in each other And they’d been good partners
True, he soued that the dead he saere his particular for to the dead should solve everything, it didn’t work that way But now Logan wasn’t a Ranger anymore; he was a fed And he was the head of a unit A special unit that was informally called the Texas Krewe
Jane Everett was part of that Krewe Did that an’s secrets? Or that she knew about Sloan? He doubted it Logan never spoke to anyone about anyone else’s business But, somehow, Jane Everett made him uneasy
Was he worried that she was only an artist--and not really ent?
Or was he worried that she was an artist and an agent andthat they needed to get the skull out of Lily It was als to come
Ridiculous, he told himself Still, he didn’t like it
But he’d been the one to call Logan Raintree
In keeping hat Sloan knew about his old friend, he wasn’t surprised, when he’d looked up his recent work, that Logan’s Kreorked with strange, supernatural cases
In fact, it was one reason he’d decided to approach him
Because there’s more to this than meets the eye and it may be important--but do I really want to know? he asked hiht need help fro it to be true
"Yes, I’ent Everett," he told Jennie
"Coe apron She’s beenthe issues in Lily at the roup had gathered around the stage Valerie Mystro, who had found the skull, was leaning casually against the show’s hero, Cy Tyburn, a tall, blond, all-A actor from Kansas Alice Horton, dark-haired, dark-eyed, sultry and buxohsainst the near-black of his hair Sh he played the show’s villain Henri looked happy, standing in front of the newcomer, Jane Everett, as seated next to Alice
Even in the group of beautiful twenty-to-thirty-year-old actors, Jane Everett stood out She was seated, so he couldn’t judge her height, and she earing a typical pantsuit--one he ht bulge was apparent at her rib cage; she earing a shoulder holster and carrying her weapon, which was probably just as regulation as her black pantsuit and white shirt But she wore her hair loose and it was a striking shade, the deepest auburn he’d ever seen And when she looked up at his arrival, he saw that she had the most unusual eyes he had ever seen, as well They were amber Not brown Not hazel Amber
As he entered, she stood Whatever they’d been discussing, they’d all gone quiet as he walked in
"Sloan! We’ve just led "I told her how terrified I hen I found the skull, but then, she’s an FBI agent--I’m sure she would have behaved perfectly normally"
"Maybe not A skull can startle anyone," Jane Everett said
"Oh, you haven’t ent Jane Everett, ent Everett"
"It’s Jane, please," Jane said, standing to shake his hand She was on the tall side, he noted Probably about five-nine, since she earing neat low puainst his six-three fraant and classical He i ladies would be discussing herassets She appeared to be lean and triulation attire, she seeest a well-honed body
So this was the artist Logan had sent to sketch his skull?
It wasn’t his skull, he re, breathing hu and it was part of his town’s history As far as he knew, anyway And if it wasn’t--if Jane Everett’s rendering of the long-dead wo it up froruesome prank on the show’s cast or crew