"Got a call. Somebody claims to have seen a huge wolf running around here, in the middle of town."

Jack laughed. "More likely to be a wild imagination than a wolf. There aren't any in Florida. Probably just someone's German shepherd that's got astray."

"Well, it wasn't imagination that broke that window," said the sheriff.

Jack frowned. He looked first at the window, then at the glass on the ground. "Look here, that window was broken from the inside."
The sheriff stepped closer. "You're right. So why would there be an animal breaking out of Tom Downey's Antiques?"

This story only refers to 10k characters, instead introducing a new character from the Nine Kingdoms who accidentally winds up, of all places, in rural Florida. Jack Randolph, an adventurer-turned-writer, runs into a wolf and undertakes to help it get back home.