Chapter 2

After about 4 hours being board and assessing how to work all of the electronics, Peregrinus decided to watch the television. He had already read all of the book on the shelves very quickly by is impeccable observation and memory capacity, so he had nothing better to do at this point. He saw on the news that The Wolf had killed a group of poachers by trapping them in their own snares and acting like he forgot that they were there. Peregrinus grunted frustrated, "This is the kind of person that I made the gods to punish." In truth he was talking about the poacher and The Wolf. It's not alright to hurt anything like that. Even the people doing it. He changed the channel to a live playing of an opera. Peregrinus found this more to his liking. The tales of comedy and tragedy in sound form were epic in his mind, and he appreciated anyone who could come up with such things. Especially dark or poetic opera. Despite being so against evil, Peregrinus enjoyed the macabre. He just would never commit terrible acts himself, not without need to do so.

There was suddenly a knock on the door. Peregrinus had heard the person before, and didn't recognize their scent, so he just turned off the TV and hoped that whoever it was went away. After a few more rounds of increasingly loud and impatient knocking, the man said "Anyone home? I gotta package for yah." Peregrinus just shrunk away, not that he was expecting to be caught, he just wanted minimize the risk. "I'll leave it here you jackass. I heard the TV yah know!" The man said. "Don't take it personally." Peregrinus thought to himself.

The door to the apartment had a hole on it to see who was on the other side. After taking a second to look through it, Peregrinus slowly opened the door and peered through the crack. There was no one on that side of the hallway. He then moved his head to look behind the door. There was thankfully no one there either, as they would have seen him before he would have seen them. "Curse my hair length." He thought to himself as he got up to a full stand and looked to the hallways once more for good measure. The package itself was a brown box that looked to be a foot tall with the other sides being roughly 18". The sound of footsteps flooded the stairs. He carefully read the return address. SAMPSONFEILD ILLIANOIS, 17832. The stairs were well in sight and Peregrinus could see a head start to appear just as he looked up from reading the package. He picked it up and quickly scuttled into the apartment, locking the door behind him.

Peregrinus bolted into the kitchen where he set down the package on the counter and then fled to the bathroom. He shut the door in a similar fashion to the apartment door, by frantically slamming it out of fear. He didn't think that this made him any less suspicious than before he had made all of the loud noise. There was a jingling of the apartment door knob and a sound of keys. "Oh shit, Ian didn't tell me that somebody else has the keys!" Peregrinus thought. After the door was opened whoever it was immediately rushed for the bathroom. "Goddamnit!". Peregrinus thought again and again until he heard Molly say "Angel, are you in there? I really have to go potty." Peregrinus practically fell to the floor with relief and he opened the door to see Molly.

"I thought that you were an intruder Molly, sorry." He said. Molly replied with a shocked look. "Hey, you can talk!" It hadn't occurred to Peregrinus to think to tell her that first. "Go ahead, dear." Peregrinus said as he walked out of the bathroom.

Molly spent the rest of the day doing homework. She was determined to get into a good college. "One day I am going to teach english to students like my daddy does." She said when asked about why she was doing so much work. Peregrinus thought carefully and said. "Can you bear the work? Or will you break under so much stress?" To which she laughed. "I'm a smart girl, plus my daddy's the best there is when it comes to teaching english. I'd like to try and see them stop me. The more homework, the better." It was this that made Peregrinus feel proud of Molly for taking the time and following her dreams. "You're right," he said, "Nothing can stop someone with that kind of drive." Though Peregrinus didn't see what was so interesting about english. What made this girl so adamant on learning? Her father? She was an unusual girl indeed.

Peregrinus watched out the window for several hours. He witnessed the clouds slowly move across the blue sky. He was displeased with the smell of the air though. It smelt of unature. The scent of pesticides did not mix well with glass cleaner and alcohol. But he could smell it all. Peregrinus had very good senses. Above all that he could smell, he could smell the scent of loneliness. He wasn't even sure of who it was coming from, him or Molly. But it was plentiful in the room.

Late that night, long after Molly went to bed, Ian finally arrived through the door. "There is a package for you." Peregrinus shot, but it seemed that he was too tired to answer. He just grunted and walked to bed, barely keeping himself awake enough to do so. Peregrinus figured that it would be best to go to bed to and did so on the couch. "Slowly", he thought as he drifted into a slumber. "I'll get my strength back."

When he awoke, Peregrinus was greeted by a smile of Molly's. A little weirded out, Peregrinus lifted himself up to a standing position. "Why are you happy?" he asked as politely as possible. "We're going to the U.N .building today in class." "What is the U.N. building?" Molly looked shocked, "You don't know what the UN building is? I thought angels know everything." "I have really got to tell her that I'm not an angel." He thought to himself. Molly, finally answered "It's where all of the ambassadors of the world meet, and they're having a meeting today. They're talking about what to do about The Wolf. And we get to be there. Isn't that so exciting?! " Peregrinus smiled and said, "Oh, How lovely." On the inside, he knew that he would be alone for another day. Molly, being the random person that she is, just up and took off, after that. There was no more to be said apparently. Peregrinus shrugged and turned on the news. He thought that he would give it another try.

It only took him an hour to regret watching the news. "The infamous Bio-Terrorist, "The Wolf" issued a threat to the United States government stating that any attempts at capturing or killing him would end in the destruction of those who would try it." The news lady stated. "There have been no official statements by any government official and many still believe that this terrorist is a hoax. I'm Clarissa Bennett for the news." Peregrinus turned off the TV after that. "I hope that this guy is a hoax." Peregrinus thought to himself. "Or I might have to deal with him."

And it was just after that thought that he heard a large CRASH!