Milton stopped less than a hundred meters away from the shop.
Because he saw a familiar figure.
William Tabot of the Tabbot family was squatting on a stone lion opposite the shop's alleyway, dangling his long legs, and his gaze was elusive.
As a regular in the Western Fantasy World, werewolves and vampires were not a rare sight. However, compared to reality, those tales often had errors—for example, vampires did not turn to ash after being staked in the heart, and besides having bad breath, eating garlic actually did them no harm. Furthermore, although Wolf's Bane had many uses for werewolves, transforming into a wolf did not necessarily mandate picking a night with a full moon when the Wolf's Bane bloomed.
Essentially, among a myriad of legends, only one thing was reliable: werewolves and vampires were sworn enemies.