animal crackers

Lecter commonly could be found within the den he had claimed for himself and Jinx — Ira was not given a second thought — and decorating the stones of the path outside with much blood. But it was this day that found the man relaxed in some pool of sunshine, relishing the warmth that leached the pain from his body.

Presently, he caught the thread of Sitri's scent and padded forward to find the brute, whom he grudgingly liked. But the man was not alone; he had confronted a pretty little whelp lolling indolently upon the grass as if she were nothing more than an emptyheaded concubine. "Get up, the shaman ordered, hating to see indulgence in those around him, though he himself had been doing much the same thing moments before.