Chapter 78: Day 35 (night)

Hearing the sound of the door to the bar quietly opening and closing, Caleb looked up and glanced in the mirror that ran behind the length of the bar. He used it to get a look at the wolf he could smell even as he kept polishing the glass in his hand.

New faces in Bitten were pretty commonplace, even more so lately.

This one though… through all the dust, sweat and grime he could smell and see ground into his clothes and too thin body, Caleb could smell where he had come from. And one glance at his face had him doing a double take at how young and scared he looked beneath the dirt.

Far too young to be wandering into a bar on his own.

“Can I help you?”

Daniel looked cautiously around the bar and edged nervously closer to the man that had spoken. “I…”

“I’d best warn ya, I can’t serve you without some I.D.” It happened, someone pushing their luck in an effort to get some booze but it didn’t happen there often, not once people realised what