It was not my intent to frighten anyone. Shang-Da stayed close, so that he breathed his answer on my lips, We will discuss it. I'd inherited the leopards when I was forced to kill their old leader, to keep him from killing me. I'm not invisible on your guy-radar anymore.
Belle turned back to us, and again there was that sense of another face swimming underneath, but this time I saw it like a ghost superimposed over Musette's face. He squatted there for a moment, looking like the chimpanzee AM had intended him to resemble. Some small, screaming part of me knew I was still kneeling on the carpet in Jean-Claude's living room, but the rest of me was in a dark, candlelit room. I had the memories, I knew how many times her needs had brought them together, her love for each of them had bound them close.
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