Chapter 14: Curious Tom (1) (1/2)

Chapter 14: Curious Tom (1)

Once school was over, Tom had directly headed home, only today it had been without his best friend by his side Honestly, after hoeird his buddy had behaved the whole day, To on with Gary

‘The broken desk, suddenly being able to send Blake flying and the pierced rugby ball… could Gary really be a…’ He gulped before allowing his ht ‘A olf?!’

Just one day ago he would have immediately refused to believe such lunacy Unfortunately for the current him, it was an answer that would coe occurrences today If Gary hadn’t brought it up earlier, it ht have never even crossed his mind

As always, Tom was the first one to arrive ho for some important company one hour’s drive away in a Tier-2 city and were therefore gone for most of the day He was happy that their income allowed them to live comfortably in this h he wouldn’t havethem more often By the ti overtime and on weekends was unfortunately rather the norm than the exception

To up like his parents His dreae mansion in a Tier-1 city, surrounded by beautiful maids ould cater to his every wish Just like Gary, he saw beco such a cozy life

However unlike his best friend he was also very interested in the technical side surrounding Altered Tom had clearly inherited his parent’s curiosity, so he kept up to date on everything in that regard as well Be it whenever new fossils were unearthed or any developainhis room, it was filled with computers that Tom had handbuilt himself There was more than one tower, and he also had multiple screens with tabs still open frohtly shaking as his fingers hovered over the keyboard

‘If Gary really is a olf, and it’s like in those erous He could end up hurting everyone, including his mother, his sister or even myself’

With this inaway

‘How to kill a olf’

As usual the internet was full of contradicting infor the sites that claimed that olves didn’t exist, others -types Altered, which could be killed similarly to humans, it would just take a little bit more effort

However, this wasn’t what To for He just wanted to find an easy method to verify whether Gary was one The most common answer that came up was to use silver which was supposed to hurt those creatures to varying degrees depending on the source

He opened his drawer and pulled out a snake-shaped silver pendant his parents had gifted him on his last birthday He had never worn it at school because he thought jewelry was a little too tacky and didn’t really fit his style