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learned that such things exist and the jury’s still out on that
one by the way, so how can this have anything to do with me? Surely there are
other families like mine that can handle this? And when you say rogue werewolf,
does that mean there are not-rogue werewolves?”
    Briefly
cursing his role in informing her, Powers took a deep breath.  
    “First,
yes there are many packs of werewolves scattered around the world. Contrary to
popular fiction, werewolves are committed to living in harmony with humans –
they blend in and try to protect people. But occasionally there comes a rogue,
one that feels humans are nothing but prey. Families like yours and mine came
about because of a fairy spell. A selection of families was chosen throughout
the world and bespelled to become human defenders. Rogue werewolves prey on
humans and by bespelling these human families the fairies gave them a way of
protecting humankind against such a threat. You also have the ability as I said
to sense other supernaturals. We the guardian families were chosen because we
are shapeshifters, to help keep you safe. Each of our families was bespelled to
be bound to one of the chosen human families. Obviously it’s a rather dangerous
job.”
    Zora
snorted, “Obviously! But again, how did this become my responsibility? I don’t
even know what I am or how to do what it is that I supposedly do.”
    “It is the
responsibility of the defender to take care of the rogue werewolves as they
arise. Your family has always been the strongest. The reaction you had today at
the crime scene was extraordinary given that you are completely untrained. When
you have learned to harness your ability you will be able not only to sense it,
but also to get a picture of it and even how long ago it was there and where it
was headed.”
    Zora
snorted again. “Don’t be absurd Powers. I was frozen to the spot and it got
windy. I for sure didn’t ‘see’ anything or ‘sense’ anything beyond that it was
pretty weird.”
    Powers
studied her face seriously. “Are you sure Zora? Are you certain you didn’t get
a picture inside your head, just a flash maybe?” Zora shook her head, then
paused mid shake. There had been that flash of…no, it wasn’t anything.
    Powers saw
her hesitation and leaned closer. “What is it Zora, did you see something?”
    “Don’t be
ridiculous. Of course not! It was just a mental flash, probably brought on by
my nerves.”
    “Tell me
anyway, what was this flash?”
    Sighing,
Zora closed her eyes as she concentrated on remembering that moment. With the
general weirdness she had dismissed it entirely. She frowned as it came back
into her mind. “Eyes, yellow eyes. Not human eyes, but intelligent. And they
were looking right at me.”
    Powers
smiled in triumph. “You see? No training, no knowledge of what you are and
still you used your natural ability. When you are trained you will receive much
more information.”
    Zora was
not nearly as pleased as Powers, she didn’t want to receive information on some
sort of homicidal supernatural creature. For all she knew, this conduit was
two-way. Now there was a scary thought!”
    “But not
one to worry about. You receive, you do not transmit Zora, and werewolves are
not telepathic.”
    Zora
narrowed her eyes at him. “You know it’s kind of creepy the way you crawl about
inside my head. I don’t think I like it.”
    “It’s been
happening a lot more lately, which is not surprising since there is a werewolf
in town.”
    Zora
choked on the mouthful of coffee she had just taken. Until he put it like that,
she hadn’t fully understood it. There was a werewolf in town. If you believed
in such things, and she didn’t. Well she hadn’t this morning. She didn’t want
to believe in something that had given her child self nightmares. She couldn’t
even watch Twilight for goodness sakes. She looked at Powers’ hand where it
rested on the small table he had pulled over to put their coffee on. So