H9

H9

"You seem to know a lot about it, Dr. Wahkan."

"I know that among the Changed are the Begotten and the Made. I know both  the Begotten and  the Made  can Make the  Change, but only the Begotten can beget the Change. I told Kim and Sofie the Change had been present among some members of the Red Wing for a human lifetime  and more, and if  you believe the Green  Book it goes back  much, much  further than  that. But  when I  tried to explain all this to their mothers they wouldn't believe me. They took  the girls  somewhere  to  get a  second  opinion, and  now Headwater is infested with outsiders."

"Headwater is a good place, Doctor, just like you said, but the killer deliberately  draped her  body across three  states. That forces my hand.  I must report this crime to  the very outsiders who have made things less good here over the last few month. But I  can't  believe she  was  killed  just  for wearing  Red  Wing jewelry."

"A flirtation with the Red Wing might run deeper than a penchant for hair accessories," the doctor suggested. And with that, in the full view  of the sheriff, he  began to run the  body of the girl through the necessary indignity of an autopsy.