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The tunnel slowly descended into the depths of the island, and a few switchbacks prevented us from wandering outside those bounds and beneath the waters of the bay. Good thing, since I couldn’t swim and didn’t really want to try learning in a leaky tunnel a few hundred feet below sea level.
I squinted into the distance, but a corner in the tunnel prevented me from seeing very far ahead of us. “So, what do you think Begbie was talking about when he mentioned that dragon?”
Eric shook his head. “I don’t know, but I imagine we’ll find out.”
A thought struck me that made me lose a little color in my face. “There aren’t real dragons are there? I mean, dragons like you. That is, how you’re a werewolf, not werewolf guy.”
He smiled at me, but there was a tension in the corners of his
