"Ah yeah of course how I wouldn't know..." I said with a clearly sarcastic tone while reading the open book in front of me.
This Waterville town had something I wanted to try as soon as I got my hands on the internet,a library, it's supposedly small compared to regular libraries,but it's as empty as the town itself.
Currently reading a dictionary, learning the meaning of enough words,even if I didn't get the whole scope of the world,I could always at least understand what people are saying.
"Werewolf: Someone who,in stories, changes into a wolf at the time of the full moom(=when the moon is a complete circle)."
"Interesting." I said closing the book and putting it inside my suitcase,this thing was so lonely that he thought no one would miss a single book.
I stood up from the chair and walked into the entrance of the place with suitcase on hand.
Me and the other teenager receptionist exchanged looks,the girl only gave me a brief one before returning her attention to her phone.
I left the library to get inside the truck,turning it on before starting to drive away,the day was just starting and typically this was the best moment for him to start moving,only now is when cops start driving around.
The actual way of stopping criminals in small towns like these are thanks to the townsfolk, if more than 5 people looked at the truck with a messed up plate that looked like it was rolled over and then the numbers were forcefully changed, maybe he would get a cop chasing him.
I stopped almost at the end of the town,a small restaurant made solely of wood standing there with quite the rustic look.
"Betty's house" I read before parking outside of it, he was quite getting the hang of eating regularly 3 times a day, even when his body was perfectly functional without it,it detrimented his body growth completely.
So he has been eating all the time he's able,but now with this trip he has barely stopped moving.
I got off the truck and walked inside the small restaurant,the tables and chairs made with tree branches and the tree itself,the wood barely touched since it only had a small cover of wax over it.
It was fairly nice and had only one table filled with 5 men,all of them with white hair,white skin and blue eyes, a normal stereotype around here.
I walked over to a table next to a window where I could look at the truck.
"Hi dear what do you want for today" A sweet laced old voice said,apparently Betty was still alive and serving.
"Ah... whatever you feel like serving,I don't worry much about money you see" I said with a soft smile,human interactions coming easier everytime I had the change to have one.
"Well my husband is almost done with the goulash dear,I'll tell him to get ya a plate ok?" She asked for confirmation but before I could respond she patted my head and left.
"Ah well... that's new to say the least." I said touching my hair,it was frizzy and clearly needed attention,I could easily take care of it and regrow it with my power to look cleaner,but I didn't want to leave adn traces so evident.
In 20 minutes the old lady left a silver plate holding a bowl filled with a red liquid,trails of meat and vegetables in it.
"Since it just got out of the pot you should wait be- oh dear!" The lady almost jumped,the only thing stopping her being her old bones as she watched how I took a spoonful of the steaming hot dish.
I chewed the meat while I drank the liquid with ease,the burning not even creating a flinch on me,the pain of my tongue and mouth burning brushed away thanks to the delicious taste.
And before I opened my mouth I was already healed from any injure.
"Thank you really! Your husband sure is as kind as you are,and I still haven't even see his face!" I said to the still in shock woman who only nodded slightly and took a step back.
"I'll get you some water..." she said with half a smile,surely she was only finding an excuse to not look anymore.
After she left I kept eating peacefully for 5 minutes,she then left a cup with water before taking a chair and sitting on the same table as the five men.
They greeted her happily before pointing at the news in the small tv hanging from a side of the place.
"Recently one of the most strangest cases just happened, 3 days ago a call from 911 ended with the encountering of a dead body identified as Robert Williamson, whose body was beheaded,and further investigation revealed he was killed using his very own shotgun." A young looking lass said while holding a microphone in front of a group of cops walking around the scene.
'Should've left the poor man there...'
"Apparently the assassin made a grave for Robert,leaving flowers pictures of his family and even wrote the exact moment of the murder."
"Tch..." I looked down at the halfway bowl of goulash and gulped it all down to my throat.
I grabbed the water cup and drank it down too before leaving 20 dollars on the counter under the cup.
"Thank you miss, your husband really made my day!" I said with a happy tone before walking away.
The savings of Robert coming again to save his ass.
He got on the truck,and turned it on with ease and quickly got into the main road to the next town,Cambridge.
It was also a small town,supposedly is the 3rd town before Jericho,but since Underhill was just 1 hour in car next to Jericho,he must be reaching the town at evening.
4 hours.
He kept the small pace he has made for himself on the truck,he didn't want anyone suspicious so he never went over the 50km per hour even when the speed limit let him.
BRRMMMM...
The truck made a low noise before stopping suddenly,making my head bumb against the steering wheel,my nose now broken while I looked at the screen on the truck.
"No gas..." I muttered before watching the rear view mirror,and checking no one was driving.
I got out of the truck and opened the cargo box to take two gas cans.
I opened them before unloading them inside the truck,the smell of diesel somewhat still strange to me.
I threw the cans to the cargo box again,now this time easily since they're completely empty.
Then I got on the truck and started driving again,my mind wandering to parts of the plan I couldn't make up inside Robert's house.
"Surely if I do this the person in charge would accept me in..." I said touching the well hidden knife inside my pocket,one which was surely just a personal defense one,it was a regulat stiletto,handcrafted for sure.
I took it out of my pocket just to admire it,the wood looked immaculate even after so many years of obvious use, and the engine also was pretty good.
I watched for a bit more time before hiding it again on my pocket not wanting for anyone to watch a kid driving a plateless truck with a knife on hand.
Jericho was right at the corner,and the tall trees started appearing pretty appealing already,I could get used to this lifestyle in the woods.
I kept and eye on the road softly whistling a song I heard earlier on the radio.
"Oh fuck!" I yelled before hitting the brakes quickly,my eyes looking foward to the road at a hurt dear in the middle of the street.
"Poor thing looks in pain." I said under my breath before rushing in front of it.
I kneeled and quickly looked at the deer clenching,it's noises of pain not trying to mask how far gone he was.
It's guts we're spilled on the ground thanks to a visceral cut like it a big claw.
"A bear maybe..." I started thinking while grabbing the guts with my hands and carefully putting them back inside,regenerating any damage done to the insides.
"But it didn't ea-" and before I could finish my sentence I felt like something stabbed me in the back and the front.
Looking down I watching a huge pair of claws like nails passing through my chest.
"Oh..." I softly muttered while I was raised into the air,and before I tried to lift myself free a whistle-like swing was heard and my head was off my body.
I tried regenerating back,but whatever did this was hurting my body enough to make the healing stop.
Only 20 minutes after I was able to regenerate back a head from my mauled body.
"Ah..." I softly let out a coff watching the blood shed,a pair of arms were over some meters and another pair of legs under the truck.
I stood up,watching my open chest silently close,the ribs like wings going back to the original place.
I looked down at the deer,now dead.
"Fuck..." I said while kneeling,this time watching how because I couldn't close the wound,the guts spilled again and the deer apparently died from blood lost.
"Whatever tried killing me stopped me saving you..."
"I'm sorry, trust me that If I knew how to reverse life and death you'd be running in the woods by now..." I said,dragging the deer to the woods by the head.
And then when I came back I took a good 20 minutes gathering my other parts scattered around.
Just when I was about to get inside the truck I felt.
I put my hand on my chest,feeling the steady pump of my heart,it was the same as always but my heart wasn't.
I grabbed the stiletto knife and without a doubt I opened my chest,carefully taking the heart in question.
I examined it upclose, and with the close look I finally had I realized something.
"That thing only took my heart..."
I muttered before putting back my heart back and my chest closed again,this time I even took my time to fix the cut shirt with my power.
"Man reversing is so cool now that I have more knowledge to compare it to..." I said while acomodating my butt cheeks on the seat.
And just when my mind was about to forget the try of assassination I watched the glove.
I quickly opened it and read the first new again.
"Only a missing toe..." I said under my breath,my mind understanding two things.
"This thing is taking only one part of people..."
"And I'm outside of Jericho!" I yelled happily before throwing by the window the newspaper and turning the engine on.
"Now now, I must think of a name..." I said with a smirk showcasing just how happy I was to even see another freak like me.
"I saw a lot of cool ones..." My mind passed a lot of characters I was able to know and look.
I was almost sure I'd like to name myself Peter Parker,but taking in account that Peter doesn't kill, it's off the list.
After a quick thought I watched how the path cleared out,revealing just the most outstanding view.
"Oh damn..." I said breathless.
The tall houses standing proud over the metal fence,the small road ahead made of stone and surely hours of forced labor of werewolves.
The main buildings towering one over the other with special details,bigger,thiner and broader all combined inside what looked like a fantasy town itself.
"Oh man she's the best person I know!"