"Scott should be here any minute, he's just stopping to pick up Theo."

"Dr. Deaton was telling me the other day about a separatist pack of werewolves."

"Saitomi's pack. They've taken a few losses, but they're still around. Why?"

"Something to do while you all are in school."

"Does anybody actually know how to find them?"

"I can talk to Brett."

"The doctor said he was looking into it."

"Asking Brett may be more efficient. I wasn't aware we could readily contact one of the betas."

"Oh yeah, he's kind of around a lot of the time."

"That's because of his obvious crush on you."

"If the kids are done having teen romcom plotlines, I think the takeaway is that you can get in touch with them if we convince a teenager to trust you. Sounds easy to me."

"Are you not the same age as the rest of these?"

"He's older than me and Mason by a lot, we're freshman. And he's like, the oldest one here. I think he's bitter because we're all better looking."

"I think he's only a month older than Lydia?"

"Anyway, moving on, I think that's Scott driving up now thank god."

Adolescents and their drama.

"Hey, sorry we were late. Theo had to explain what was going on to his parents."

"They like to worry. Might do it professionally if it paid well."

He turns to Ellie.

"Hey. Sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you earlier. I'm Theo."

"Ellie. Fairy. You?"

"Werewolf."

"Did you just tell your parents everything?"

"I wanted to explain the Dread Doctors. It's new, and they like to feel like they know what's going on, even if they don't want the details."

"What did you tell them?"

"The bad guys are abducting people, and we're trying to stop it. They don't want to get involved. They're good people, but they know they can't really handle this kind of thing, and they don't try to stop me."

"Okay. As much fun as just yapping like this is, maybe we can do something useful while we wait?"