"What did they look like?" I asked, totally absorbed in his story.

"They all look different. Some looked like big hairy humans with wolf heads and talons. The older ones looked like oversized wolves with human-like bodies. And then every variation in between."

I shuddered. They sounded so ugly, and Paul was so beautiful. How could he want to look like a deformed wolf?

"What do you mean that they're powerful?" I asked.

"We're faster, even when not ...