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OK, sis?”
    Switching on the kettle, Luna began preparing her own cup of steaming liquid. “Seriously, Michael, do you know what it is? If you know anything, you’d better tell me now otherwise I will go crazy on you”.
    Still holding onto his mug, Michael leaned back against the counter, tiredness seeping across his face. “Seriously, sis, I have no idea what it was. Could’ve been a hairless squirrel for all I know”.
    Slamming the mug onto the counter, Luna turned around with a look of disbelief etched onto her features. “Michael, whatever this thing was, it was not a hairless squirrel. It looked like something out of a B-rated horror movie. It was grey, the skin all wrinkled, fingernails as long has my own hands. And it was scratching my windows like it was trying to get in. It was screaming, Michael, screaming at us before jumping off and escaping into the forest. So you tell me, does that sound like a hairless squirrel?”
    “Lower your voice, Luna, I’ve already got a headache”, he sighed. Running a hand through his honey blonde hair, he looked at her. “One of my wolves is gone. The main hunting grounds were empty; no one has been there for a while. Did find another one of those damn piles of white stones though, just like the one put on the porch”. Michael took another sip before continuing. “Something has scared my wolves and I don’t like it. Perhaps the thing you saw has frightened them. I don’t know. But Chase and I will find out what it is”.
    Cradling her mug, the steam caressed her skin. She had only been back in America for less than twenty-four hours and so much had happened within that short period. Luna resolved to put it out of her mind and tried to concentrate on other things.
    Such as sorting out her parent’s funeral.
    “Fine. You deal with it. But you may want to see what it did to my bedroom windows. It looked bad last night”. Luna gazed down at the floor. “What do we need to do today?” she asked, her voice tired and barely a whisper.
    Sighs flowed from the other side of the room. “I’ve got some errands to run this morning, phone calls to make and all that. We’ve got an appointment with the sheriff late this afternoon. After that we can start preparing everything”.
    “What can I do until we see the sheriff?”
    “No idea. Perhaps you’d want to go through the paperwork and stuff? See about insurance details and all that crap”.
    Luna scowled. “Urgh. As if I don’t get enough of paperwork at the office. Fine. It will give me something to do.”
    Michael nodded and headed out of the room but stopped just at the doorway. “Don’t worry, sis, there’s nothing to worry about in the woods. Nothing strange. Once mom and dad’s funerals are done you’ll be headed back to normality”, and with that he walked away.
    He was right in one way, Luna thought. After the funeral she would fly back to Paris. She’d go back to the law firm, file the folders away, make phone calls, date Pierre and go back to her little apartment each night. Predictable. Comfortable. Familiar.
    There had never been any inclination to return to America after she had finished school. Instead, Luna had travelled around Europe for a few years with a group of school friends before they had all returned home or gone off to university. Luna had gone straight into work, doing admin jobs for a number of years before landing a role at Pierre’s law firm. Back in America, Michael had opened a garage in town with Chase.
    Michael and Chase had been friends for as long as she could remember. His mother had moved into Westfield, the closest town to their property, when Chase was still a baby. Luna’s mother and his had soon become friends and when Chase were born they both spent more time together. Chase was older by about four years but they had remained best friends since early on. Now she was here she could remember he was always at their house, always getting into mischief together.
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