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They walked a few doors down and entered a giant hall She gaped Three stories of bookcases On the arched ceiling was awhat looked like their entire history Stallo, the Wolf Wizard, in his alchemical lab, the transformation of the five It would take hours to study all the details “Wow!”

“Most of the collection was brought fro more books each year”

“I didn’t knoolves were such big readers”

“They are The ”

“You believe in inheritance of acquired traits hypothesis, disproved long ago?”

“Not genetics Magic Like your ability to charm animals”

Well, duh “After all that’s happened, trust me, I’m a believer”

“Come Let me show you a relevant part of the mural”

Gaby followed James, distracted by the row upon rows of books How had they amassed such a collection and how had they started the library?

James stopped and pointed to what looked like a scene ofat the stake “Many were lone wolves, but there were cases of entire packs wiped out Even a few innocentin the woods People demanded all olves hunted, even when most had moved to safer territories”

She stared One scene depicted the title Edict of Segner Underneath, wolves devoured people who ged out Others beheaded “I’ thrown out of the packs They ainst them”

“I’en leader instigated others to out the olves for political gain or to rid the world of the lycan kind”

“At least theymy line”

“According to our records, the last wolf-segen was killed in the year 1767 At least, so they believed Maybe, one of your ancestorsthey carried the trait”

“I a to have the lab analyze my DNA”