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Glaucus's eyes widened as he read. Wow he was stupid. And Erik was wandering ble.ding and in agony, around in the woods. "My parents are leaving tomorrow, i know my mom she'll make them leave. They won't continue their vacation knowing I left."

Chris was right they were going to have stay here for now. "We need to find Erik fast, the first 48 hours are crucial to his survival, and we both know his "condition" isn't lessening the time he has. We have to find him. Luckily for us though, the staff doesn't seem all that competent and probably won't check either cabins until my parents leave. Which means tomorrow we have to pull everything out of the two cabins before they send a maid in." Glaucus snapped his fingers, "Perhaps i should clear our stuff out now, I'm feeling useful again."

Glaucus knew where this was eventually going to lead. "Chris... we can't stay here for long. We need pull all of our stuff to here and then move somewhere else. How long have you leased the cabin for?"

Glaucus could see the tragedy setting itself up. Regardless of what they did now, eventually questions were going to be asked. Erik was a runaway, Glaucus had been forced to abandon his family, and Relana had to break off contact with hers. And now, Erik had disappeared forestward leaving a bloody trail, Glaucus had left his own blood trail from his cabin to Relana’s Cabin, and he put them all in great risk. Neither Relana’s cabin nor Erik’s cabin was safe now, and if like Glaucus thought an inspection was carried out tomorrow, they would be discovered here in Chris’s cabin.

“You sleep Chris. And Relana you stay here. I’m going to bring your and my stuff back here, and leave a note saying that you had to return to Ireland. As for Erik, I think it’s best to leave his things alone for now. First thing in the morning though we have to find him.”

Glaucus exited the cabin and ran carefully back to Relana’s cabin. He entered quietly, his two gigantic bags off in the corner by the front door. There he found all of Relana’s things in corner still mostly unpacked. He looked around to make sure everything was packed and counted up her bags. Glaucus counted two, and then grabbed them along with the lighter one of his two bags and walked carefully out the door. It took him longer then he expected but he returned to Chris’s cabin.

Whispering, he thought he saw Relana was still awake, but he didn’t want to turn the light on just yet. “I got two bags from you, how many did you bring? I still have to go back for my other bag, and I need you to write a note. Then I can close the cabin down and see if I can’t find a hose to get some of the blood off of the porch and the immediate street.”

The wolf man was fast asleep on the couch in his cabin. However, his rest was not easy. Christopher was subconsciously alert to every sound nearby. His eyes constantly shifted in his sleep, expressing his unease and awareness to his surroundings. Chris's tail even stiffened from time to time when any loud movement caught his attention.

Christopher's venture into the dream realm would not put his mind at relaxation either. A terrible nightmare was soon awaiting him, once all went quiet...

Relana watched him leave once more, slightly less apprehensive than the last time he ventured outside. She only hoped that he would be as lucky as last time.

As she sat down, one of her ears began to ring. She sighed, putting a hand over it. She winced as a deep pain shot in her ear.

"Great," she thought, "first, it's fish feet. Now, an ear infection?" She couldn't be sure. Sometimes, they ached for no particular reason. Relana hoped that it wasn't an infection; she was unsure if she put enough antibiotics in her medicine bag. In her childhood, earaches were common for her--her allergies always had her congested. So, she was prone to bringing antibiotics with her.

She looked up as Glaucus burst into the cabin, breathing heavily as he slammed the door.

"Glaucus?!" she stood up, searching for him in the dark. "Glaucus, what's the matter? Did someone see you?"

"Your fault?" Relana said, taken back. "What do you mean, your fault? For what?" Her head tilted in confusion. "You haven't ever done anything wrong, Glaucus." She grimaced as another pang of pain spiraled down her ear and resounded on her temples.

"Ach, maybe this is an ear infection," she mused. "Sure feels like one."

~A Little Later in the Night~

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaairrrrrrrreeeeeeeccckkkkkkk!" screamed out Christopher at the top of his lungs, hunting through an endless abyss of trees and shrubbery with a damp fog enveloping the area very slowly. The wolf man could not deny the fact he was lost within his current terrian and was simply wandering aimlessly. All he was capable of was screaming out the teen's name and squinting his eyes from time to time to make out a shape. His nose was usless in here due to the thickness of the fog. He could only pick up the displeasing aroma of his sweat.

Eventually, Chris began to pant heavily as he ventured further in. The humidity caused by the fog was becoming unbearable and with his new fur, it was only making it worse. The wolf man collapsed to his knees and toppled onto the ground, feeling exhausted again and trying desperately to breathe. The fog seemed to swirl him and blind him completely. Closing his eyes, Christopher just laid there and waited for something to happen; for either him to suffocate, the fog to clear, something to attack him, anything. Maybe even stay encased in this foggy nightmare forever.

He didn't have to wait long when something landed on top of him with a thud, making his ribcage ache immensely. However, Christopher reacted once he felt sharp teeth wrap around his neck. In a moment of a panic, adrenaline, and agression mixed together, the wolf snarled and pushed up with all his weight and threw the mysterious assailant off of him. His attacker didn't waste time though as he pounced at him once more. But Chris wrapped his arms around whatever this thing was and wrestled it to the ground, rolling around in the dirt and snapping at it with his muzzle.

The assailant did the same and managed to tug a little on Christopher's lip during the snapfest they were having. Yelping in pain, Chris growled in anger and wrapped his pawwed hands around the thing's throat and dug in its claws. The thing, which had to be an animal, let out a cry of pain and jumped off for a moment. But Christopher didn't allow it a chance to get away. Lashing out an arm, the wolf man grabbed the thing by the leg, hearing the bone snap in the process as it was caught off balance and bent in an opposite direction. The animal was howling in agony by this point but Chris didn't care. He lavished in the yelps and mercy cries, his rage overtaking him. This thing would be the outlet for his anger and pain of the day.

Picking up a rock beside him, Christopher raised it in the air and slammed it against the thing's skull multiple times until a splatter of blood hit him in the face. The fog soon began to lift, as if to unveil Chris's "thropy" but the sight quickly turned the wolf man's blood cold and he became completely frozen. The "animal" was Erik... He had just killed the one he began to consider his little brother. But the thing that really overtook Chris was the position of the body. It was exactly the same way Lyall looked, and the same way she had died too... by his hands...

Christopher's whole body began to quake as a wave of emotion hit him. As the vehement tide in him intensified, the wolf man slowly raised his head into the air and open his mouth to...

"NoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO
oooooooooOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!!!!!!!" howled out of Christopher's wolf-like muzzle as his eyes shot open and he placed his hands on his cheeks, digging the claws a little into the flesh which drew some blood. The howling scream stopped but Chris remained in the same position, a quivering mess. It took a few minutes for his trembling state to fade away, allowing him to come back to actual reality.

The pain now felt as if someone was slowly but surely hammering a long nail into her ear. She felt every painstaking heartbeat reverberate in her eardrums.

Relana opened her mouth to answer Glaucus' question, but a loud howl that came from Chris' room interrupted her. She ignored her pain for a moment as she heard Chris' loud cry echo in the cabin. She jumped up in fear, wondering what had made him howl like that. She followed behind Glaucus, hoping that Chris was alright. She saw him shaking violently on the couch, as if had seen something horrible.