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Roy C. Lackey wrote:<br>
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<pre>><i> She could have considered doing that, but it might not have saved them
</i>><i> from other dooms arranged by Gideon Chase. She seems to have decided
</i>><i> that he needed to be eliminated very early on (after enhancing Cassie,
</i>><i> of course). This is under the theory that Margaret was Chase's shooter.
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I'm sure I've said this before, but Gid repeatedly referred to the shooter
with masculine pronouns.</pre>
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I'm not sure how good a look Gid got. Also, isn't Wolfe of the old
school on pronouns? He doesn't go in for the "him or her" stuff much.<br>
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<pre>Gid also said that it is easy for a shape-changer to slip back "down", so
easy that "werewolves have trouble maintaining their human forms at times."
(100) Getting hit in the face with a meat cleaver is pretty traumatic, quite
enough so, it seems to me, to lose control. Besides, within a couple hours
of the shooting, Margaret showed up at Cassie's place and had no visible
wound.
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If the shooter is anyone we know or see later (and it should be, to be
a fair mystery), then they should either have an injured face or be of
a type of creature known to regenerate rapidly. Werewolves in legend
can heal rapidly from any wounds not made with silver weapons. We never
see anyone with an injured face. So the shooter is someone we never see
again (unfair) or Margaret.<br>
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