The professor is far from suicidal, Ginger agreed. And he knew how the panthers felt about him, and about any attempts to remove their ancestral icons from the territory. But...it sounds as if you thought he had an inside man. We do. But how would an inside man get him past all of the other panthers? It still doesn't make sense.
He ran his hands wearily over his face. Okay. The day's over. Let's go for a run. I need to clear my head and then we can talk.
They drove outside of town, and the sheriff pulled into a small wooded cove by the side of the road. Loch got out of the car and Ginger followed suit, shutting the patrol car door.