"I am her bodyguard," Jacob says. "I think the business cards collecting dust in a drawer somewhere have a line that says that."

"But you don't have wolves, his kind I mean, so the rest of the explanation wouldn't make sense," Elspeth says. She digs out and proffers 1B, "Introduction to Werewolves". "Skip to section three unless you're interested in how he can become enormous and furry, and how he's telepathic," she says.