Book Two - Ch.# 23

“…Is that a phone?” he asked, still appearing shocked.

“…Yes?”

And he immediately walked over to me, starting to scan the area around us. Almost as if he were checking to see if anyone else had seen me.

“Quickly put it away,” he said.

“What’s wrong, Kieran?”

I asked the question but still did what he requested, stuffing it back into my pocket.

“Communication and recording devices like that aren’t allowed here,” he said. “It’s the only way we keep ourselves safe. They potentially jeopardise our entire kind’s secrecy. You’d be best to just leave it switched off in your suitcase and don’t let anyone know you have it.”

…I guess that made sense. I’d been wondering myself how they’d managed to keep their existence so unknown all this time. If someone started taking videos of people turning into wolves, I could see how that would quickly uncover the truth.

“I’m sorry… I didn’t know,” I said. “My friend was worried about where I disappeared to. I just called to let them know I was safe