Pam wondered what her Maker had been doing the last months they'd been parted? She knew he had been with Sookie but to what end? Just how much had Sookie Stackhouse changed him? He seemed less ruthless, less ... him. He was becoming more and more a man she didn't recognize and if she admitted it, which she wouldn't, she'd have said it scared her. But then vampires didn't feel true fear, did they?