Eliot froze. "What?" he asked, wincing at the boy's words. "No, Faolan! I never thought for a minute that you're bad! It's just... I've never met a werewolf before. We have legends about them where I come from, but no one believes them. I don't know how much of them is true and how much isn't. I'd rather not have any odd surprises, like changing shape every full moon. I never thought for one minute that you'd actually try to harm me."

He wraps his arms around the child.