Chapter 66

So the next day, Alex caught a flight to the capital and waited until late in the evening. Then he entered Alakta and into the woods and found Mary, who had no idea what had happened to her or how she had been a werewolf. She had been living in the swaps and tenements, eking out an existence, killing rats, rabbits, birds, and birds, and scaring children. Despite her being new to the world of werewolves, her human instincts still took some part of her brain that she had never attempted attacking or killing a man.

Alex had brought her home and tried to civilize her. He had already moved from the apartment she had known him to be living in a couple of years ago. As it turned out, the task was as impossible as civilizing a wild animal. The best one can hope for is to tame it. Mary had lived on her own as a werewolf for so long - yes, two years was so long for a nonhereditary werewolf who lacked the basic instinctual control techniques to live on their own; these years were enough