“And back within dating distance of your professor’s daughter.”
“What we’re interested in most is something Ron saw last night,” Marius, obviously ignoring us, continued. “He said he saw a shadowy wolf, something solid in its mouth, slip without a sound through the woods, fend off an attack from a material wolf, and then disappear when attacked again.” He raised one bushy eyebrow. “Would you know anything about that?”
I had been so intent on my goal I hadn’t noticed I was being followed. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Are you sure, spirit-walker?”
“You had bugs in the lab. You knew what was going on.” I clenched my fists, and the truck lurched over a pothole or rock of some sort.
“Sorry,” Sheriff Knowles called out. “That one snuck up on me.”
Marius ignored him. “We’ve be
