It took about half an hour just to catch everyone up on where we were. We told them about what had happened here after she left. I told about Doc's funeral, about the investigation into the torching of the clinic. Viper's quick thinking with the gasoline and the oxygen had obliterated any evidence of werewolves, and the whole thing had been blamed on druggies. The estate settled with the insurance company, and that was that.

A few strangers poked around in the next few weeks, probably wolves, but they stopped coming soon enough. A woman even stopped by to see Moose, asking about Vivian; from the description, she said it...