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shut, and stood. “I don’t like that the families won’t know what happened to them, but we didn’t do this. Fenryrians did. It’s why we have to stop them.”
    She turned in the direction of the boat. Louise came and picked up the girl’s limp body while Tom and Karl hoisted the other two. I stayed behind Eileen until we reached the boat. I caught the rope and pulled the boat closer while Eileen took the body from Louise and leapt into the boat. Karl and Tom followed her.
    “We’ll take it from here,” Tom said, catching the rope when Louise tossed it to him. “Thanks for your help.”
    We stood there until the boat disappeared into the dark. Neither of us spoke. Finally, we turned and made our way back to the motor home.

Chapter Two
    I helped Louise secure the awning on the motor home to a closed position. Images of the previous night kept invading my thoughts. I put them out of my mind and tried to go on like it was something that happened every day. I guess, in some possible future for me, it could become a daily occurrence. We’d spent the past hour closing things down. Louise would be on Dromen with me for only a few days, then she’d come back here to stay at the campground. She wasn’t teaching at The Project right now. I didn’t ask what she was working on. It was probably a secret. Louise had quite a few secrets. I stopped long enough to look out across the crystal blue ocean just visible through the trees. That’s where it would all begin, where’d I start the process of finding out where I’d fit in the werewolf world.
    Louise rolled up the outdoor rug and put it in the large storage compartment, slamming the door with finality.
    “Come on, we’ll get in the Jeep and get breakfast, then it will be time to go to the marina and get on the boat to Dromen.”
    “How long will you stay at the school?”
    Louise tossed me the keys, and I got behind the wheel. For someone who’d made me ride a four-wheeler all summer because she didn’t want me to drive her car, she was certainly taking advantage of having a chauffeur now.
    “I’ll be there a couple of days to see you settled. Go right here.”
    We’d come to the entrance of the campground, and I did as she directed. “You’re not teaching at all?”
    “No. I teach certain things for a week or so, then someone else will teach something new.”
    I glanced at her then returned my attention to the road in front of us. “So, what do you teach, exactly?”
    “Hand-to-hand combat and telepathy.”
    This time, I turned my head completely around and stared at her.
    She tapped her hand on the dashboard. “Watch the road, please. Take a left at that sign up ahead.”
    Facing front, I wet my dry lips. “Will I be taking any of those classes?”
    “You will, but you’ll also be in some beginner classes like how to control your Becoming. Most of the people will be a year or two younger than you, but don’t feel bad. They’ve just known they were werewolves or would be werewolves before they changed, so most everyone your age had these classes at an earlier age. But it shouldn’t take you long to master them.” She paused to wave her hand. “Left here, this building.”
    We came to a stop in the parking lot of a building that reminded me of Angeline Aucoin’s place back in Louisiana. Angeline’s building had once been a gas station or had some other utilitarian use prior to being transformed into a restaurant and seafood market. Angeline, an old voodoo woman who’d been a friend of my aunt’s, had generally scared me to death. Mostly because she seemed to know everything about me. She said she “saw it in the blood.” I never bothered to ask who or what the blood belonged to. When we went inside this restaurant, I was relieved not to see anyone who seemed ready to put a curse on us.
    Once seated, I leaned across the table to Louise. “Will I get to be in the telepathy class, since I can hear you talking in my head?”
    She nodded. “Yes,