Identity: Chapter Forty-Six
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX NED "It wasn't Dr Rath. Couldn't possibly have been." The speaker was a Lycaon surgeon called Edmund DuBois, and they were sitting in one of the hospital's conference room. Dr DuBois was trying to sound professional, but there...
Identity: Chapter Forty-Five
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE NED The Prius was parked between a blue van and a red Corvette convertible, reminding Ned of the American flag. The back door was down - Justice Johnson had closed it, he said, after finding the body. The call had come early:...
Identity: Chapter Forty-Four
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR NED At SF Metro headquarters, Ned was feeling low. They had failed. The Prophet had outwitted them yet again, drawing all their attention to Van Holling, when in reality, Wilson must have been his target all along. That made...
Identity: Chapter Forty-Three
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE MIKEY Mikey was elated. He could still hear the shrieks of the crowd echoing in his ears. Oh, the chaos, oh, the hysteria! It was insane, insane beyond imagination. His stub tail wiggled against the car's seat as he reflected -...
Identity: Chapter Forty-Two
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO NED That was a scene Ned wanted instantly to forget; watching the kid collapse, dead, but with the expression of horror petrified on his muzzle. Killed in cold blood, defenceless, by the very coyote who Ned was beginning to think...
Identity: Chapter Thirty-Nine
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE NED Ned and Scarlett were waiting when Garrett's yellow Mustang pulled into the SF Metro parking lot. At first Ned thought Garrett had come alone, but then he realised that Olympia was in the backseat. She and Garrett were...
Identity: Chapter Thirty-Eight
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT CASEY The afternoon sun was already high as Casey Goldsmith turned his back on Westover High. Even in mid-June, the heat was already stifling, so the young coyote panted heavily, now that he was out of class, without Mrs Kraft...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-Six
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX NED "Come on, come on" they teased. "Show us the gold..." Scarlett's ears tipped back in shy embarrassment, but her muzzle opened in a crack of a smile too, as she held out her paw. The intricate diamond sparkled in the...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-Five
\*\*\* This is NOT the last chapter CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE NED The crash sent up an echo that rang throughout the empty mall. Wordlessly Ned ran to the balcony. Maxwell lay on his back amid the wreckage of one of the kiosks. He'd fallen right into...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-Four
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR NED The fox had gone into a trance or something, muttering incoherent nonsense and whimpering quietly to himself, paws gesturing, so after a moment of that, Ned had started edging himself towards Garrett, who, the silly yote,...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-Three
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE MIKEY Mikey was in a nightmare, but it was a living one. The wolf was saying that his family had been murdered, but that couldn't be so; that was only the dream, the reoccurring nightmare, but if so, how did the wolf know about...
Identity: Chapter Fifty-Two
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO NED He'd barely made it out of the building when his voice vibrated_. Gee, that was fast, Arkady_, he thought, but when he extracted the phone, the ID said Garrett. Briefly he considered how he should relate the morning's events....