In the five years Bill worked for the New Walsh PD, he had never received a less than stellar evaluation. Though, if a skilled investigator happened to dig into his past, they would discover that he had no university or academy training to speak of. In fact, he had no credentials other than the ones he left the pack with all those years ago—which, to say the least, weren’t much.

Luckily, an unnatural sense of smell, reflexes, speed, and an ability to plant “suggestions” within human minds went a long way to fill any educational gaps. Besides, New Walsh was such a quiet town that most calls centered around silencing rowdy neighbors or finding lost pets.