Raki met us about twenty minutes after Westexan arrived and we settled in to drive further toward our destination for the evening. By the time we arrived we were hungry and tired and checked into our rooms to freshen up and go to supper.
It was by far the biggest truck stop I had ever seen. We were seated by a cute little thing who reminded me of Daphne who helped us put some tables together in a fairly secluded spot and took drink orders, going heavy on the sodas and tea. She headed out, leaving us with menus and we settled in the big oversized chairs designed for the professional sitter in mind and eyeballed the treats. This was not your ordinary trucker's choke and puke but a restaurant designed for people who had strange schedules. It may be dark as Egypt outside, but it was the start of the day for some of these knights of the road, so the menu had everything from breakfast fare to deep fried shrimp and prime rib au jus. That is what I had, along with a garden salad.
We ate and talk in rowdy Trubie fashion. The promo posters, one asking about Bill, the other warning us not to feed the shifters and the first true minisode showing Eric and Pam in the unenviable position of trying to find a dancer for Fangtasia had peaked our senses and tickled our funny bones.
We were wondering about the next adventure and the people in Bon Temps and how our relationships might be effected by the things that would happen.
"Fairy, have you asked Eric where Hunter was taken?" asked God Speed.
"He says it is better that we not know precisely where he is. Just that we know he is safe and he will be revealed to all of us soon," said Fairy. "Aslinn, has the Barrister found out anything about how the Vampires will deal with Eric acting as Hunter's guardian?"
"The London contact has said that Eric might simply apply the mine rule, even though Hunter is taboo for a meal or anything else. Sookie had not been tasted in any capacity yet when Bill claimed her. Then I remembered something I wrote in the Countdown about Vampire children. It was common in some lore for Vampires to adopt human children and raise them to act as day time guardians and servants, to be later rewarded by their Vampire parents," I said. "Barrister is putting together the brief as a precedence, and hopefully the Magister will accept the document and allow the lore to stand as a precedence for new thought in the Vampire legal system about the roles of humans, adult or otherwise. The only snag is, we can't have Vampires just snatching children off the streets to make wards of them...so the details will have to be hammered out."
"How about Jessica and her predicament?" asked Sal. "Would Barrister be able to help her if her troubles continued?"
"Barrister said he would do what he could in her case to keep her from being punished, but he does not know til we know what will happen," I said. Barrister, my human lover, was involved in a cooperative relationship with Jessica. Though the gentlemen in the relationship were not as generous with each other as the ladies, they were working it out, if reluctantly.
"I wonder about Lafayette," said Westexan. "I was looking at that photograph. Is Lafayette looking at Pam or Eric?"
"He is scared of both," said Raki. "But he is also drawn by Eric's blood, so it is hard to say."
"Will that fade?" asked Dude. "I mean does it ever go away?"
"In the books, it seems to lose potency for the human, but the Vampire can always feel for the human I imagine if they look for them through their blood...but they may even have a hard time with that after a while," said Lina.
"I agree," I said. "When Sookie was taken by the fairies, Bill had to rely on Niall's help to get to her. So while Bill may feel her a bit, I imagine his bond is far more emotional than it is by the blood. She tied more to Eric now, more so than Bill, bloodwise. I think that is what Pam meant when she said Eric lived on in Sookie."
"The books also said that Sookie was very close to crossing a line between human and Vampire," said Renee.
"Did you notice a wolf in the picture," asked Butter. We all nodded. We had. Did the wolf represent weres in particular? Or was it Alcide?
"This is the beginning of the opening up of the tale and the supernatural world," said Linzy. "Bon Temps is about to get a lot weirder."
"Yep, we definitely aren't in Kansas anymore," said God Speed.
"Actually Honey," said Jen. "We are in Kansas."
God Speed thought for a second and slapped his forehead.
We broke up our meeting with laughter.
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