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otherwise?” said Dana. “He doesn’t want to admit to doing it on purpose.”
    Ursula considered and then nodded once curtly. “Probably true.”
    “Murder,” said Avery. “Gray comes back and all hell breaks loose.”
    Dana sighed. “Maybe it’s murder. I mean, what’s the guy’s motive? Did he really want to kill fifteen people?”
    “If it’s deliberate, it doesn’t matter why he did it,” said Ursula. “He goes in solitary confinement. There’s room down there. We’ve only got Randall.”
    “You don’t think we should look into it further?” Dana asked. “Try to figure out why he did it?”
    Ursula shook her head. “I don’t think it matters. He admits to it. He’s dangerous, and we can’t let him out. What more do we really need to know?”
    She had a point. Dana nodded. “I guess that works for me.”
    “Great.” Ursula stood up. She turned to Avery. “Brooks, you get the paperwork on his transfer to solitary filed, all right?”
    “Sure thing,” said Avery.
    “Gray, you’re with me,” said Ursula. “I need to talk to you about something.”
    Dana got out of her chair and followed Ursula. The two made their way to a corner of the tracker office, where Ursula’s desk sat. She settled behind it and motioned for Dana to sit in front of her.
    “So,” said Ursula. “How was your first day back?”
    “Fine, I guess,” said Dana. She wasn’t going to mention the trouble she was having keeping her wolf under control. Ursula didn’t need to know that.
    Ursula smiled. “Good. We’re happy to have you with us again.”
    “Happy to be back,” said Dana.
    “I know you want to put this business with Randall behind you, and I completely support that. You and I had talked right afterwards, and you indicated to me at that point that you weren’t comfortable talking to the press about it.”
    “That’s true,” Dana said slowly. Where was Ursula going with this?
    “I wouldn’t ask, Gray, but I’m getting pressure from the higher-ups. You keep up with the news much?”
    “Not recently.”
    “Perfectly understandable, given everything you’ve been through.” Ursula took a deep breath. “There’s legislation they’re trying to get passed to cut funding to the SF. If it goes through, it’s probably the first step towards instituting the kind of see-wolf-shoot-wolf policies that the talk radio guys are always yammering on about.”
    “They can’t do that,” said Dana. “Are you serious?”
    Ursula nodded. “We’re doing what we can with lobbyists, but the upper levels of the Sullivan Foundation think we need to try to sway the people to our side any way we can. They think if you talked to the media about what happened, if people knew you as a hero, it might help sway public opinion in favor of the SF—show them that we’re the good guys.”
    Dana rubbed her forehead. “You want me to talk to reporters, don’t you?”
    “Maybe just one,” said Ursula. “Weren’t you dating a staff writer for that big internet newspaper? The Jefferson Post or whatever?”
    Dana studied her fingernails. “Hollis and I haven’t been in touch much since it happened, really. I sort of pushed him away.”
    “Well, can you get in contact with him again?”
    She could. She guessed she could. After all, Hollis still left weekly voicemails for her, checking in, asking to see her. But she was too confused about Cole to let Hollis back into her head or her heart... Or her pants. She leaned her head back. “I don’t know, King.”
    “You know I wouldn’t ask this of you if it wasn’t important.”
    Right. She owed the SF so much. They were asking this of her. She should do it. Take one for the team.
    “He’ll be kind to you, won’t he? He cares about you? It will be a positive piece.”
    “I’ll talk to him,” said Dana. It would be as positive as Hollis could make it. The Jefferson Post was a little biased against werewolves. Hollis had gotten some heat for dating her in the first