Chapter Twenty-Four: Two Timing

The tour moved on. There was a big meeting hall that the pack used for public events, a small private school for the pack children, a brightly painted playground, and a small medical clinic. Honorera was impressed. The pack was like a town all to itself. "How many are there of you?"

"We have about 200 adults, plus their children," he answered, and she was surprised. She had imagined a group of about 20 or so.

"And they are all able to shift?"

"Most of them."

She would never have guessed there were so many supernatural beings in the world, let alone in one small town. She tried to imagine that her own mother had been a wolf, but she couldn't picture it. She'd seen old, faded, and creased photos of her mother in Tanner's room. Rachel Talbot looked like a small, mousey woman. Honorera’s mother didn't look capable of swatting a mosquito, let alone changing into a mythical creature.

It was past lunchtime when the couple wandered back to the main house, but Elena had left them some s