Silver and Monsters

After having lunch in the hotel's restaurant, the two of us were travelling once again. Rakesh promised we would find a place to rest again before midnight, if only so that I could sleep but between now and then, I had to answer his pop-quiz questions on the various monsters that were in the notebook and how to kill each of them.

I played along with him because he refused to answer questions about himself and I had little else to talk about.

"How do you escape from a kelpie? Or kill it?" Rakesh questioned me.

I sighed out and said, "silver hurts it. Are there any monsters that aren't fearful of silver? And why silver anyway? What is so special about it?"

Rakesh seemed thoughtful about it for a moment and then paused in his steps. He looked at my neck where the choker was and then replied, "back in the early days of humanity, they put water in a silver pitcher, because it takes a lot longer for the water to go scummy. There are medical prop