“Comma-whos?”
“Our great and unforgiving masters, wolf—”
Lyle sighed and rolled his eyes. “Could you please just call me Lyle?”
Arius chuckled. “My, my, said with a please and everything. How dreadfully polite.” He surprised Lyle by bending at the waist in a quick half bow. “And I, as you know, am Arius.” He straightened, smiled, and c****d his head. “Does this make us friends now?”
“Uh, well…” Lyle eyed Arius, hoping to get a read on Arius’s reactions to what he was about to say. “According to my father, you and your kind are malicious, spiteful, dangerous, and have absolutely zero control of your affliction. You only survive by killing, and I should have already called one of my contacts at the Committee and reported you for the very fact that you dare to exist. I’m thinking that’s n
