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attractive girl, but she changed into something with feathers or fur when the moon was full. I noticed Sam

give her a hard glare when Jason's back was turned, to remind her to behave herself in his territory. She

returned the glare, with interest. I had the feeling she didn't become a kitten, or a squirrel.
 I thought of latching on to her brain and trying to read it, but shifter heads aren't easy. Shifter

thoughts are kind of snarly and red, though every now and then you can get a good picture of emotions.

Same with Weres.

Sam himself turns into a collie when the moon is bright and round. Sometimes he trots all the way

over to my house, and I feed him a bowl of scraps and let him nap on my back porch, if the weather's

good, or in my living room, if the weather's poor. I don't let him in the bedroom anymore, because he

wakes up nakedтАФin which state he looks very nice, but I just don't need to be tempted by my boss.

The moon wasn't full tonight, so Jason would be safe. I decided not to say anything to him about

his date. Everyone's got a secret or two. Her secret was just a little more colorful.

Besides my brother's date, and Sam of course, there were two other supernatural creatures in

Merlotte's Bar that New Year's Eve. One was a magnificent woman at least six feet tall, with long

rippling dark hair. Dressed to kill in a skintight long-sleeved orange dress, she'd come in by herself, and

she was in the process of meeting every guy in the bar. I didn't know what she was, but I knew from her

brain pattern that she was not human. The other creature was a vampire, who'd come in with a group of

young people, most in their early twenties. I didn't know any of them. Only a sideways glance by a few

other revelers marked the presence of a vampire. It just went to show the change in attitude in the few

years since the Great Revelation.

Almost three years ago, on the night of the Great Revelation, the vampires had gone on TV in

every nation to announce their existence. It had been a night in which many of the world's assumptions

had been knocked sideways and rearranged for good.

This coming-out party had been prompted by the Japanese development of a synthetic blood that

can keep vamps satisfied nutritionally. Since the Great Revelation, the United States has undergone

numerous political and social upheavals in the bumpy process of accommodating our newest citizens,