Larry appeared in the cliff house living room to find the others anxiously awaiting his return. Biting the bullet, he said, “The bad news is that Adam was correct, Philip, your house is gone. There’s nothing left but a hole in the ground.”
Philip nodded; the enormity of what Larry was saying barely sinking in yet. “If that’s the bad news is there any good news?” he asked hopefully, not certain there could be anything about this that would be considered ‘good.’
“I’m afraid not. When I checked the place I noticed two things. One, there was no sign that anyone, like firemen or police, had been there. And two, there was an odor of something that I’d classify as completely alien. Now don’t get your back up, Adam, but you have a certain smell that I pick up on when I’m in my wolf form. I can o
