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“On what?”

I sighed and holstered un I couldn’t stand there forever with it bare inas concrete as that “How much control the individual Therianthrope has on his inner beast How close it is to the full moon”

“I was told Bobby had perfect control of his animal side, but after what he did to Ray and what just happened in the cell, I don’t think his control is perfect”

“Perfection is a pretty high bar, Sheriff,” I said

“When you turn into abeast once a month, I think perfection is the minimum I’d want”

I couldn’t win this arguuy or words into it I was done with trying to convince Leduc that lycanthropes weren’t monsters A lot of people believe that supernatural citizens are people just like the rest of us until they see what preternatural strength and power can do to a natural citizen Then suddenly they want to change their votes I couldn’t even bla that the vampires I executed were soullessthe lives of their future victims It had all seeh huan to question my morality It’s a slippery slope once you start that kind of soul-searching The kind that can lead you to fall in love and be about to randmother Blake had informed me over the phone that I was damned if I married Jean-Claude, damned for all eternity So many reasons I didn’t visit home much

“If Bobby is guilty, then he’ll die for his criuilty”

“I told you, Blake, he is the only wereanimal we have in this area It has to be him because it can’t be anybody else”

“Did you check the body for signs of abuse?” I asked

“It was abused all to hell”

“She means sexual abuse,” Newman said

Leduc looked at us both as if we’d said soeous, he just couldn’t believe his ears “What the hell are you talking about, Win?”

“The blood on Bobby’s groin”

Leduc took a few steps away fro in one of his own cells “W

hat the fuck, Win? Isn’t it bad enough that Ray is dead and Bobby did it? I will not add to the scandal and pain for his fa about that kind of shit”