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.The snout was distended just Page 105ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlenough to be unnatural.The eyes were animal eyes.Dark, thin lips curled back from yellow fangs, as crooked and rotten as a long neglected picket fence."No orthodontists back in Transylvania, I guess."The wolf man snarled at him, then spoke."You wanna die before these two, it make no never mine to me.""Use caution, my son.He is more than the others." It was Chiun who spoke, several feet behind him.Remo nodded just barely in understanding.He sidestepped to see Aurelia, standing firm with both hands clutched around a semiautomatic pistol with the slide locked open.Empty.Cuvier was crouched behind her, fingers clawing at the concrete wall as if he longed to tunnel through it and escape."I hear you talking, Leon," Remo told the wolf man, pleased to see the savage eyes blink in surprise."Is talking all you do? Or do you save the muscle for the ladies?"The loup-garou sprang at Remo, arms outstretched to seize his throat.There was no planning to the move, and precious little skill, but there was animal speed and agility that shouldn't have been present in a brute that was six foot five or six and way better than two hundred pounds.Remo had battled the mutated, half-animal creature created by Judith White, and he knew their capabilities.Leon was better.Leon was faster.Leon came at him like a bolt of hairy lightning.Remo watched him come and waited until the final instant, then stepped to the side and struck with his right hand, fingers rigid, hooking solidly into the wolf man's side.Leon reacted with inhuman speed, twisting in midflight to dodge the blow.But he couldn't avoid it.Remo felt ribs snap on impact, heard the grunt of pain and saw his adversary stagger as he regained his feet.The loup-garou pivoted to face his enemy, returning to the fight with greater caution, snarling as he came.Remo dropped and spun, lashing out at Leon's right knee with a kick and heard it snap.The wolf man clawed at the empty air where Remo had been, then yelped in pain and flung himself down, hoping to trap his adversary beneath him.Remo was gone.The wolf man pushed up off the floor, craning his head to find where his enemy had gotten to.Remo was coming at him from behind, and he planted a palm on the wolf man's back.Leon Grosvenor was slammed to the floor with such force he felt as if a concrete wall had come down on him."Okay, dog-face boy," Remo said."Time to talk."The wolf man struggled weakly for a moment, dazed."Fu-!"Remo pushed harder.The wolf man's entire rib cage compressed, his lungs being squeezed into a smaller space as his ribs creaked like the timbers of an overloaded pirate ship of old."Speak, Fido," Remo commanded.Leon wheezed and struggled."It was Armand Fortier.Merle Bettencourt.Them's the ones that hired me."Remo felt the stall.There was still a massive ripple of strength alive in the wolf man's body, and Remo knew Leon was talking while he got his wits together.But talking was necessary."I don't give a fur coat for those two losers," he said."It's you I'm interested in.""Me?" Leon grunted."More precisely, your maker.How did you get this way?""I was born this way, you stupid son of a-" There was a nerve in the neck.People had it.Leon probably had it, too.Remo felt around.Leon howled."Yep.You got it," Remo said.Then he released the nerve."Now, listen to me, you stupid piece of dog shit, and listen good.I want straight answers from you, and I want them fast.Because good answers is all you've got right now that makes you worth keeping alive."Page 106ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"I'll talk," the wolf man moaned, long and low.Remo pressed Leon Grosvenor a little harder into the floor, just as a reminder.Leon grunted.Remo wanted to keep pushing.He wanted to do things to Leon Grosvenor that would make a werewolf killing look tame.And for a moment the Reigning Master of Sinanju was surprised at the depths of his rage."Who made you, dog?""A woman," Leon said."She came to the bayou.""And?""She asked me if I wanted to be a real loup-garou.She gave me something to drink.""What did she look like?"Leon described the woman.Remo glanced at Chiun, who stood impassively watching.Chiun nodded and asked,"What about her arm, mongrel?"Leon turned his head in surprise."Her arm?" Then some sort of understanding opened on his face."Her arm.It was smooth.It had skin like a baby's arm."Remo breathed.There was the evidence.That was the kind of unusual detail that proved it.Judith White had lost her arm when she first encountered Remo.But by the time they had met the last time, she had managed to grow it back.The skin on the new arm was pink and new."Even Smitty can't deny it was Dr.Judy."Chiun nodded."How many others did she make?" Remo demanded."I made them.She ran away.I was too strong and she became afraid.""How many?"Remo knew the question wouldn't be answered when his hand detected the surge of impulses in the wolf man's muscles.Leon twisted violently to free himself-and Remo let him do it.One taloned claw slashed at him and Remo slapped it aside, shattering the bones.The other hand groped for him, weak and wounded, and Remo squeezed it into pulp.The wolf man howled with rage and pain, and his eyes flashed to the left and right.The wolf man's sanity had fled him
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