Page 31 of Wolfish
“She won’t mind. Not as important as it is to know the identity of the skeleton.” He called Ellie.
“More bones?”
“New ones this time.”
“Oh, not good. Hold on.” Then Ellie got back on the phone. “Brett’s bringing me.”
“Okay, see you there.” Daniel called Dr. Featherston after that.
“Another skeleton?”
“Yeah, at the cemetery, but this one is a new one, not centuries old.”
“Oh, that’s bad news.”
“It sure is. We’ll meet you at the morgue.”
They all arrived at the hospital at about the same time and went down to the morgue in the basement.
Selena laid out the bones and said, “The skeleton’s a female. Her neck was broken due to strangulation. She’s in her twenties and never had children.”
“You can get more than me this time,” Ellie said. “Her spirit has gone. Nothing comes to me at all.”
Selena supposed that was good. To be stuck in this world after being murdered would be awful. “So we don’t know her name or where she was from. She’s not a wolf, though DNA would show she was only a human, even if she were a wolf.” Just like when she was in her wolf form, she would only show wolf DNA. It kept them safe from experimentation. But as far as scents went, she didn’t smell like a wolf.
“I don’t know her,” Daniel said.
“Neither do I,” Brett said.
“Nor do I,” Ellie said.
“A stranger. If the three men brought her here, she might not have been here when she died.” Selena examined the bones further.
“Why bring her here?” Ellie asked.
“It’s probably far enough out of the way from where they killed her, whoever did so. A lot of people who come through Silver Town think it’s out in the boonies since we don’t have any towns close by, but we have so many wolves who can discover trouble like this. How long has she been out in the elements?” Daniel asked.
Selena rubbed her forehead in thought. “If she had been left out in the elements, warm temperatures, she could have decomposed in a month.”
“We have to catch these men and learn the truth,” Daniel said.
Brett shook his head. “Yes, before we find anything further that these men could have done.”
“We can’t do anything more here tonight,” Selena said.
“Sorry that I couldn’t help further,” Ellie said.
“I’m glad she’s at peace.”
“Me too,” Ellie said.
Then they put the bones in storage and left the hospital to return to their homes.
“I hope we can soon discover who she is and where she belongs.”
“It’s too bad Ellie wasn’t able to help more.” Daniel wished she could have cleared up the mystery.
“I know. I’m glad she found peace, but it would have really helped to know who she was and who killed her if we could get that information.”
