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"Sorry for being in your way kind sir." I said trying to regain my normal attitude. I walked over to Bethany "If you're wanting to cure him you should start now, I have a feeling that he does not like being one of my kind. Though from what I have heard I can hardly blame him." I looked Bethany and she still looked a bit frightened. "Are you sure you're ok Bethany?" I asked.

I eyed the bruise forming on her cheek. "No need to make breakfast for me or dinner tonight, I'll be doing my own hunt tonight, the mistress will be in all her glory this night. While I'm at work if he tries anything just blow the whistle, it not only will tell me you need help but also stun him for a good deal of time." I told her as I went to my room across from David's and put my shoes on. I looked at the clock and saw I had a good half hour to mkae it to the bookstore. "I'll be going now and remember the whistle Bethany, I don't think I would like to have to kill the pup for harming you again." I said as I slipped on my gloves and walked outside.

I left Bethany's house hoping David would be a good little pup. "Well might as well get to work." I said as I began to jog towards the bookstore. Upon reaching the bookstore there was another note on the door.

Dear Joshua, today I need you to clean the inside of the shop for me. When you're done with that then you can just read books, and watch the cash-register until your shift is over. Thank you so much.

I chuckled as I read the letter twice. I walked into the bookstore and grabbed the book I had seen the day before and set it on the counter. While I cleaned up the room and washed the windows I hummed old tunes, that made reminded me of my days of travel with my father.

It didn't take long for me to finish cleaning the store so I sat down with the story book I had thought interesting earlier. It was mostly a picture book more for children than adults but the story it told captured me as if my mind was in the grip of a boa named intrigue. Surprisingly the story had much more depth to it than I would have expected from a children's book. The story told of a wolf-man, bear-man, lizard-man, bat-woman, and a regular man traveling on a journey to regain a moon that had lost it's way; but through out the story I had a feeling I had seen this story somewhere. After I finished the story I set it back on the shelf and just picked up a random book about a man in space. Looking at the clock as I sat down with the new book, thats when a cutomer walked in.

I stood up straight and set the book down. "Hello may I help you?" I asked while the woman looked uninterested at the selection of books. She turned to me and asked ,"Do you have a novel known as the Discworld?" I nodded as I wakled to the fiction side of the store and pulled out a book. "Here you go miss." We walked to the counter and I said "That will be $15.50, miss." she dug out the money handed it to me and left with the book. "At least one customer came today." I said picking the book I had when she came in and sat down. "Hmmm......Under the Moons of Mars...." I read the title outloud.

I heard the whistle and was out the door in a flash. Running through the crowd, dodging people and jumping over cars. When I finally made it to Bethany's house I was almost deaf from the constant ringing from the whistle. I ran up stairs and found Bethany hitting a mass of blood, that I could only assume was a head. I grabbed the paperweight and felt the massive burning sensation lance through my arm, silver....perfect. "Bethany it's ok I think you took him down. What happened?"

"It's alright Bethany, you did only what you could have done at the time." I said soothingly as I set the paperweight down on her desk and looked at my scorched hand. I picked the whistle up and put it in my pocket. "Bethany go down stares and make some hot cocoa the old fashioned way, you need to take your mind off this for a few mintues. I'll clean this up while you make the cocoa." I said as I tried to lift her to her feet.

I watched as she went downstairs in a trance. Sighing I turned back to the mess before me. "You sure know how to defend yourself Bethany." I muttered as I began picking skull fragments and tossing them into a trashcan nearby. It took me a while to clean the of the bloody head of David, but eventually I got it to where all I needed to do was scrub the blood out of the floor and bury the body. I walked down stairs "Bethany do you have a shovel and carpet cleaning kit?" I asked walking into the kitchen.