If someone could have settled Joe down, it would have been Marji. He thought she was the one, anyway.” “But coyotes don’t mate for life, do they?” I tried to keep my voice neutral. “He would have,” said Coyote. “Oh, he would have. He loved her so much.” His voice, sincere and deep, hit me hard. I had to rub my eyes. “If he’d known about her sooner, he wouldn’t have killed the vampire nest over in Billings,” he said after a while. “But they needed killing, and he was there. Joe always thought of himself as a hero, you know—not the kind of hero I am, but the Luke Skywalker sort. Rescue the
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