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I shook ht about it and wasn’t so certain Newround, so I tried for some of the truth “I knew he’d smell mythe lycanthropy in my blood”

“How did that help?”

“So you back to yourself”

“So, I couldn’t do it?”

“No,” I said

He sighed “I was hoping it was so you could teach me”

“Do not try hugging lycanthropes once their eyes have changed, Newman You don’t have lycanthropy, so you’d just smell like food”

“Is there anything I could do to keep soh the cell bars maybe?”

He was so earnest about learning the job, it made me think harder and try to teach better “If you knew them, if they were friends, you could talk about hu them back in time”

“How about if I just knew the nas like that? Could I talk the them about their lives, even if I didn’t know them personally?”

“Maybe, but only if you’re on the other side of the cage fro they’ve been a shapeshifter If they’re newbies, then it won’t work Once their eyes go, the rest will follow They just don’t have the control to do anything else at the beginning”

“What about bringing in family members to try to talk them down?”

“Absolutely not You’d be endangering theuilt if so in their animal form and realized they’d killed people they loved Don’t ever put anybody in that situation”

“Okay, you’re right That would beawful” He shook his head hard enough that his hat slid out of place He shifted it back with one hand, the other staying on the steering wheel, and he added, “Awful

seems like such an inadequate word, but I can’t think of another one”