"Sometimes you've searched so much in there that your weapon started to get cocked."The table erupted in another bout of laughter, this time at their ...eader's expense. Lon actually blushed at the attention. True, he had been known to check out his new female squad member in the shower from time to time, and true, it had caused him to develop the beginnings of an erection more than once, but he hadn't been aware that anyone, especially Wong herself, had noticed. Another supposition, proven. Something else besides gratefulness for the extra weapon occurred to me as I parried and dodged a savage flurry of thrusts and slashes aimed at my legs and arms: he was a vampire. He did not need to breathe, save to talk and our talking was done. His muscles would not cramp; he was dead and lactic acid was no longer a worry. And he just woke up and refreshed himself with two fresh bodies. I had been up since midnight, fought a couple of dozen humans and five werefoxes, and had not eaten since. They have tried to prove that the SOJ is a criminalorganisation and have accused them of everything from civil unrest tomoney laundering to tax evasion but have never been able to prove athing." You live there. You live among the Sons of Jehovah. You know they arepeace-loving, law-abiding, Christians who simply want to practice theirreligion in peace and be left alone." So why was a DEA agent in the room?" Mila finished her drink and wavedthe empty glass at the hostess."The Feds will use. It was an education that, thankfully, I absorbed quickly.Without modesty, I can honestly say that the competition spurred me to a new level of play. I learned the tricks-legal and not-that defensive lines use against the offense, both when I was blocking and when I was getting out on a pass pattern. I learned how to pass block and block down for a sweep against some of the best and most agile defenses in the country. I learned how to get loose to get into the pattern and how to run the patterns.