"That is normal, my dear. They are very hard to find." I said to her.
"Oh."
"They hide in the deep sea."
"Oh Papa can we go down into the water to look?"
Paddy smiled. "Of course."
All the shifters turned into a variety of sea creatures and dove down into the water. The rest of us gathered wood for a fire. We were sitting around the fire when they returned. Pearl came running towards me. "Mama, we found them."
"That is wonderful Pearl. What did they look like?"
"There were different kinds."
"Really?"
"Yes Mama. They kept changing shapes like us."
"No wonder it is hard to find them." Councilman Vincent said.
"Yes Sir." Pearl said.
Athos, Arthur, Hugo and Curtis had killed a deer. We started slicing pieces of meat for everyone to cook over the fire.
We stayed at the Scottish coast for the rest of the day and night. An hour before dawn of the next day we started running back to London. Councilman Antonio had truly enjoyed himself.
"I am so silly. I have lived in London for two millennia and I have never been out of the city until we decided to cross the ocean. This is a beautiful place." he told us as we ran back.
We strolled into the city following the Thames River back to the cave. Councilman Antonio did not like being out in the sunlight for too long.
Colleen and Shaun stayed with him in the cave while everyone else went back into the city to do some sightseeing and shopping.
Paddy took us to an inn for our afternoon meal. Pearl was hungry after our run. We sat in the inn's common room Paddy ordered food for the three of us. We listened to the conversations the people were having. They were talking about a recent killing in an alley nearby.
We ate our meal then went to investigate. I had stopped breathing there was a strong smell of human blood as we walked closer to the site of the killing.
"Mama it smells bad." Pearl whispered.
"Yes it does."
We came upon some London constables looking around the alley. We walked past the alley entrance. Paddy was looking up to see if we could go onto a roof and look down into the alley to watch.
We went around the corner, down another alley and leaped up to the roof then moved quickly to where the scene of the crime was. We were mainly making sure it was not one of our kind killing indiscriminately.
I took small breaths to find out who had been there I could smell a hint of werewolf and a lot of Marcel and Benoit. I moved away from the edge of the roof Paddy and Pearl followed.
"What did you smell?" Paddy said quietly.
"Marcel and Benoit with a hint of werewolf."
"They chased that poor girl thinking she was a werewolf." Paddy said shaking his head. "She was a mortal right?"
"Yes with a strong scent of dog on her."
"Dog?!"
I nodded.
"Now they are chasing anyone with a pet. Wonderful!"
"It looks like it." I sighed.
We moved back down to the street level. We watched the constables work and listened to their findings. They were discussing the similarities with a few other suspicious deaths. "This one was killed with a slim knife also." said one of the constables.
