a quick drive through town showed me that the news was probably right . she stripped her clothes off , folding them neatly , and put them on the dresser . yet they looked like lizards with long tails . i turned to rowdy and gave him a lopsided grin that had no humor in it . she kept pausing in her work to check on the wolf , and when she returned , she spent long moments staring into space , her carving tools lying unused on her bench . 