"Sometimes you want to fit in." Mack said, "like me. My full name is Makoto and that's what my grandfather calls me but everyone looks at you weird when the teacher calls you that." Or that was just him.

He glanced up at Brad and since it wasn't really a secret anymore at the Inn, Mack confessed. "Kitsunes are real in my world, but people think they're not. They are a Japanese myth, but it turns out it's based on something that's real. I didn't know that until this year though."

That's when he found out he was one.