Now it's her turn to furrow her brow in confusion. "Doesn't everyone?" New Arcadia is probably cleaner - for lack of a better word - than most towns, but that hardly makes it Other-free, and areas harder hit by the Wars would be worse off in that department, not better. Point is: anyone who thinks they're living in a world without suckers and partbloods and weres is either kidding themselves on a grand master level or really, desperately stupid. Hell, anyone who thinks they're living in an Otherless square mile is, to put it as kindly as possible, misguided.

Unless they're some siddhartha type living way out in the wilderness, but if that's the case, then good luck making it through three lunar cycles without being warded against weres. City weres who can afford it go the illegal drug route and suppress the change; the others head for wilder territory precisely so they can run amock without doing as much damage to the human populace and/or getting mopped up by SOF.

How can this guy be a were and not know that? Was he raised in a compound? Yeesh.