Werewolves of Kregen

Chapter two

Chapter two

The Ganchark of TherminsaxWe searched. Oh, yes, we searched.

Marion’s villa yielded weapons enough to give us some confidence we might meet and face up to a gigantic beast. We shone lanternlight into the shrubberies and arcades, we thrashed the bushes. We shouted and banged kettles and pans.

We found not a sign of that feral horror.

The Watch of this precinct carried on the search farther into the streets and alleys. Seg and I felt firmly convinced the beast must be lurking low, sated by now on a victim he seized and killed without being disturbed.

“I don’t want the whole city sent into a panic,” I said to the prefect, who attended me at Marion’s villa.

“Quite so, majister. We will prosecute the search with the utmost diligence; but I think we shall find nothing until the