Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse 4.5 - One Word Answer

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ONE WORD ANSWER

Charlaine Harris

BUBBA the Vampire and I were raking up clippings from my newly-trimmed bushes about midnight

when the long black car pulled up. I'd been enjoying the gentle scent of the cut bushes and the songs of

the crickets and frogs celebrating spring. Everything hushed with the arrival of the black limousine. Bubba

vanished immediately, because he didn't recognize the car. Since he changed over to the vampire

persuasion, Bubba's been on the shy side.

I leaned against my rake, trying to look nonchalant. In reality, I was far from relaxed. I live pretty far out

in the country, and you have to want to be at my house to find the way. There's not a sign out at the

parish road that points down my driveway reading "Stackhouse home." My home is not visible from the

road, because the driveway meanders through some woods to arrive in the clearing where the core of the

house has stood for a hundred and sixty years.

Visitors are not real frequent, and I didn't remember ever seeing a limousine before. No one got out of

the long black car for a couple of minutes. I began to wonder if maybe I should have hidden myself, like

Bubba. I had the outside lights on, of course, since I couldn't see in the dark like Bubba, but the

limousine windows were heavily smoked. I was real tempted to whack the shiny bumper with my rake to

find out what would happen. Fortunately, the door opened while I was still thinking about it.

A large gentleman emerged from the rear of the limousine. He was six feet tall, and he was made up of

circles. The largest circle was his belly. The round head above it was almost bald, but a fringe of black

hair circled it right above his ears. His little eyes were round, too, and black as the hair and his suit. His

shirt was gleaming white, but his tie was black without a pattern. He looked like the director of a funeral

home for the criminally insane.

"Not too many people do their yard work at midnight," he commented, in a surprisingly melodious voice.

The true answer that I liked to rake when I had someone to talk to, and I had company this night with

Bubba, who couldn't come out in the sunlight was better left unsaid. I just nodded. You couldn't argue

with his statement.

"Would you be the woman known as Sookie Stack-house?" asked the large gentleman. He said it as if

he often addressed creatures that weren't men or women, but something else entirely.

"Yes, sir, I am," I said politely. My grandmother, God rest her soul, had raised me well. But she hadn't

raised a fool; I wasn't about to invite him in. I wondered why the driver didn't get out.

"Then I have a legacy for you."

Legacy meant someone had died. I didn't have anyone left except for my brother Jason, and he was

sitting down at Merlotte's Bar with his girlfriend Crystal. At least that's where he'd been when I'd gotten

off my barmaid's job a couple of hours before.

The little night creatures were beginning to make their sounds again, having decided the big night

creatures weren't going to attack.

"A legacy from who?" I said. What makes me different from other people is that I'm telepathic.

Vampires, whose minds are simply silent holes in a world made noisy to me by the cacophony of human

brains, make restful companions for me, so I'd been enjoying Bubba's chatter. Now I needed to rev up

my gift. This wasn't a casual drop-in. I opened my mind to my visitor. While the large, circular gentleman

was wincing at my ungrammatical question, I was attempting to look inside his head. Instead of a stream

of ideas and images (the usual human broadcast), his thoughts came to me in bursts of static. He was a

supernatural creature of some sort.

"Whom," I corrected myself, and he smiled at me. His teeth were very sharp.

"Do you remember your cousin Hadley?"

Nothing could have surprised me more than this question. I leaned the rake against the mimosa tree and

shook the plastic garbage bag that we'd already filled. I put the plastic band around the top before I

spoke. I could only hope my voice wouldn't choke when I answered him. "Yes, I do." Though I sounded

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