Day 8: Werewolves (Seth & Kate, post-season 1)

"Kate, what the fuck are these?" Seth held up a brightly-shining bullet. "Is this what you blew several hundred bucks of our cash on?"

"They're silver," Kate said primly, as she racked up a full magazine of bolts on her crossbow.

"What do we need silver for? They don't do shit to culebras that ordinary bullets don't."

"They're for werewolves."

"Were-" Seth sighed. "Kate, honey, there's no such thing."

"Like there's no such thing as vampires?" Kate said, giving him a look so pointed she could fire it from her crossbow.

"Well, as far as we personally know, there isn't," Seth shot back. "We have culebras, which strongly resemble vampires but are, in fact, a different race altogether. More to the point, there's no wolves in Mexico, Kate. So therefore no werewolves. There might be were-coyotes, maybe, but there's no indication that silver would do shit to them."

Fuck, he sounded like Richie, snarking at him for mixing up the French and Indian War with the War of Independence. Seth suppressed a wince, as a spark of pain danced through him.

"So we save them for when we go to Europe," Kate shrugged. "Once you and Richie destroy the Lords of Night, there won't be any more culebras. We'll need something to do, so let's go see if there really are any werewolves of London."

Seth regarded her with narrowed eyes. "I'm not going to win this one, am I?"

"Nope," Kate told him with a grin. "But hey, as a bonus you can scope out the Tower of London. That Moriarty douchebag can get to the Crown Jewels, so can you."

NOTE: Actually, there are wolves in Mexico; in pre-Colombian times, they were highly regarded as symbols of war and the Sun. (Hmm... given that one of the Hero Twins is also known as the Hunter, and later became the Sun, I'm wondering if this is going to come up in the show) However, the Mexican Gray Wolf had become all but extinct in the US south-west by the 1930's, and in Mexico by the 1950's.

Nowadays, Mexican wolves mostly exist only in zoos – though a breeding and release program is underway, and 2014 recorded the first birth of a wild wolf litter in Mexico. However, given that all the litter's ancestors were raised in zoos, I'm pretty sure that any werewolves would have been discovered by now.

If there's a flaw in my hit-and-run research, here, by all means please tell me!