"Naturally," Jack confirmed. He wasn't spreading it around for fun, after all. "Anyhow. Someone he had turned came to Baltimore for some reason. His ward, George -- you might remember him, he was here for a while and then left -- got nervous about the whole thing and started calling people to track him down." He shrugged and looked at the sand. "Kate and I went to find him."

And there, his tone suggested, it all went to hell.