Lois thought back to her early days of transition, first living part-timeand then full-time. How she lived in dread of being read. And of course,it ha...pened from time to time. Fortunately, Lois had been one of thefortunate ones who did not have any dangerous situations resulting frombeing read. She tried to be careful about where and when she went,especially when she had to travel alone. Now she had reached a pointwhere she thought that maybe someone wondered, but they probably left notbeing. . I kinda gave her a reason.”The blonde slayer sits back in her chair.“And if she'd hit you over the head with a steel pipe or something, I might be willing to leave things at that. But she stabbed you. She stuck a knife in your stomach and almost made you bleed to death.”Faith stares at Buffy for a moment.“So, did you.”Buffy crosses her arms over her chest.“Yeah, but I had a good reason. You were trying to help a psychotic politician eat the town.”“And Satsu had just as good a reason, except. ”Jason clapped his hands in glee, “Yes, yes, now I remember. You pull the rope and the pin comes out of the door and the dogs come out of the kennel and chase the wicked man until they catch him and eat him.”“That’s it, my love,” Maddox grinned with evil enjoyment. “Well, Greenway, you now know how you are to end your existence. You will have a head start of at least fifty yards on the staghounds, who have not been fed for three days, which will make them even faster over the ground than usual.. " And he left. I heard the Rover leave.I looked for Mum and found her scrubbing her hands in the kitchen. "Was I crazy?" she asked."No, just upset. What's for dinner?" I'm not sure what's in the fridge. Ask Sarah if she'd like to go out." Okay." Sarah always wants to go out. She always wants fried shrimp or pizza. Today it was pizza. So we went to Chelsea Pizza in Nedlands. We got a family-size with sausage and a kid's Margherita – for Sarah, she likes plain pizza. It was before 1800, so there.