Whatever curiosity he had about the dark one's appearance was squashed as she mentioned it had spoken to her. And, more troubling, it had come for her. His arm reflexively tightened around her protectively. There was no mistaking that the dark ones were real now. And something had changed if they were coming on land and attacking people. For all they knew, this... man who had talked to her WAS the one that had bitten her.<br/><br/>"I should call my mother...." He thought for a moment. It wasn't too late and even if it was, this was important enough to warrant waking up the chief. "Screw it. We should go now. This is... this is big..." He'd had all the answers for the most part up until now but this was really uncharted territory.