Wild wolves did not often track nearly as relentlessly as Lycans. For anyone who has observed wild wolves, that is to say, Lycans were simply many folds more ferocious. The wild animal relents under more conditions than the enraged intelligent beast.
Aurelia and I held firmly to the scent we had established. One might ask why she had not simply phased and tracked earlier, that would be because she had not noticed the strange scent blend mixed with the seemingly vampyr odor of the killer. Only, a true vampyr does not smell any more like rot than a Lycan would, which is to say not at all. Despite the numerous mythos believing us undead or dead monsters, we bleed, and we breathe, we are as alive as a human or a Lycan. Whatever this was, seemed well beyond that veil of life and death.
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