<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Jack seized Jethro's hand.  "I'll be good and not run off," he promised.  He didn't like to worry his Dad or his Papa -- and they both got weird if they couldn't see him in public.  His friends at school made fun of him sometimes for sticking close to his dad all the time, but Jack knew it was because of what happened with his Mommy and the bad men that Dad hunted -- and with Papa, it was about Kelly and the bad men <i>he</i> hunted.  It was easier to just stay close then to see them get all pinchy-worried about it.<br/>
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"What was Kelly's favorite?" Jack asked.  He tried not to ask too many questions about the almost-step-sister he'd never known, but he was curious.  "Mommy liked the big cats.  The spotted ones.  Cheaters."</span></span>