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But Nathaniel was right, this wasn't about sex, this was about food, and Nathaniel wasn't food. In the elevator, the young man from the window across the courtyard stared at146 THE ESSENTIAL ELLISONher. I kept looking at his face, and I thought it was familiar. It was as though having worked around chained prisoners for so long had rubbed off on them.

I wasn't a shape-shifter, but through Richard and my tie to the wereleopards, I had the closest thing a human being could have to their very own private beast. Never? he said. My fiance in college had dumped me because I wasn't white bread enough for his mother. “What’s your point?” I spread my hands.