He can help with the darkness issue, at least. Shakujyo and Gojyo both vanish, and Goyjo reforms in Sharak's hand as a broken -- and glowing -- sword. And if Tsuzuki laughs, he'll find out just how sharp that stumpy little sword is.

Really, he's not much more than a knife, his blade hardly as long as Sharak's hand. But at least his glow is soothing?

He's good at borderlines, if you want to split the pack.

There's one wolf -- the leader, the biggest, with far too much intelligence in all its rolling eyes -- in the doorway, and at least three more out in the bar. Any minute now, that front door is going to chime as the afternoon crowd wakes up and stumbles inside. They don't have much time.

But he's hurt, too.