Sally Larson taught journalism at the university where she spent her daylight hours. At night she morphed into her alternate personality: Amanda Layye, the pen name that she used when she wrote her little erotic novels spiced up with the bloody violence of the creatures of the night. Figuring that her overactive imagination had created the werewolves in her stories and now in her home itself, she took no chances keeping vials of quicksilver around her neck. Mercury contact with a werewolf in any form would make it disappear only to reappear later and take on its next step of evolution - becoming a real wolf. For years now Bruce and Lenny had been her unseen companions and protectors. They were somewhat harmless oversexed creatures, what males weren't, and usually caused no harm. When one of her students showed evidence of giant claw marks and stated that she had dreamed of the two of them trying to rape her, Sally knew that her boys were to blame. That scene she had written about. While the two were as dumb as a skunk, they could follow a script. With Halloween coming up the real danger from the creatures increased. Halloween gave the werewolf spirits three days in which they were hardened enough to eat. They were always ravenous hungry creatures at that time of the year; after all, they had not been able to eat all year long Armed with a two shot derringer loaded with silver bullets, her two vials of mercury around her neck, Sally in her witches costume chaperoned at the school dance where Bruce and Lenny appeared as themselves with her students. When another werewolf showed the party turned into something right out of a horror film. The aftermath led her student to run the local park looking for a wolf that had at one time been her protector in his werewolf form. For Sally the aftermath sent her that summer to Germany and France to do personal research upon the origins of the werewolf legends only to find the land covered with the creatures enveloped by the ancient causing curse: Angelus quod Exerto - Diabolus exsisto increpo - Lupus quod Virgo fio