Chapter 2
(Silver Forlorn)
A werewolf is someone who changes into a wolf once every full moon for the whole night then returns as a human, with complete knowledge of what happened when they formed. Just like vampires, there are many myths about us as well. While vampires don't particularly like Holy Water due to their sensitivity to the cold, we actually don't mind Holy Water one bit. They also think we're immortal, but just like vampires, we're not. Yes, we can live for a long time, but we're not immortal. Not at all. Again, just like vampires, we feel things, so instead of wasting your time trying to find a silver bullet, just stab us in the chest. It's so much easier.
The way we become werewolves is a total lie to human standards. It is just like the vampire. We can't scratch or bite someone, the POOF, you're a werewolf. NO! Just like vampires, the way to make someone a werewolf is through reproduction. However, unlike the vampires, if the woman isn't a werewolf that doesn't in any way mean she dies. She just feels a lot of kicking and usually the baby comes about three week early.
As there are many myths, there are also many exaggerations, such as people saying we get hair all over our body. Actually we only get hair on our faces and heads. That is because of heat. Because of bioengineering, there is no way ever again for a werewolf to get hair all over its body.
Just like vampires, we don't just kill all humans and animals at random. We have to ask the Wolf Lord for permission, but the consequences are more severe than that for a vampire. If we don't ask, even if no one is hurt and the victim didn't know, we get electrocuted to death. Depending on the age and strength of the wolf, they could feel the pain of electrocution for hours. The record for how long a werewolf has gone was seventeen hours before they die.
And just like how vampires don't hate us, we don't hate them, but we still sometimes disagree. Usually it is about the posts for the night. We try to divide a number of vampires and werewolves who guard the land at night, but sometimes the vampires get mad at us. They sometimes say that we need to have more posts for werewolves because they feel like they have to take on too much land. Sometimes, we also complain to the vampires about how much land we have to take on also. But really, we actually are good friends, and if not friends, then allies.
Another exaggeration is that wolfsbane can kill us. It's actually like how the vampires feel about the sun. While vampires only are affected after a few hours from the sun before they start to feel pain, we can have wolfsbane for a few hours before it starts to hurt us. I once saw this show called Teen Wolf and it actually wasn't accurate at all to what we really are. To get a good representation of what we are really like, I usually tell people to watch this show on Netflix called Hemlock Grove.
And just like vampires, there are some things people say that are true about us, like the fact that we can eat regular food. However, unlike the vampire, we can go up to half a year just on "human" food. We can go longer if we eat a lot of raw meat because that makes it almost feel like the prey from a hunt.
I once saw this movie called Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and in the movie, one of the teachers was a werewolf. This other professor, Snape, made this Lupin guy a potion so that he wouldn't be that bad at a full moon. Well, that's a lie, because nothing can help us at a full moon. And I mean nothing at all. We just have to tough it out.
Another thing people think is that exorcisms can help us not be werewolves at all. Well, they don't. When someone does that to us, it actually pisses us off even more. The Wolf Lord told us that if that happens, we have permission to kill whoever was involved in it. Now, don't fool yourself into thinking we worship the devil, because we don't. The reason it pisses us off is just because it's useless and it won't help. Werewolves are werewolves forever, and nothing can change that,
And lastly, werewolves can actually be very friendly towards human, almost like a pet to a master. So all in all, we're not that different from vampires or humans. . . right?
