That was better. Leadership role, that seemed more fitting.

"I put it in, you pull out," Tony said, touching his forehead with one of the anchors -- or, at least, putting it close enough to his forehead to pass as a mock salute -- before he turned back to the cliff-face, putting his foot into a gap to push himself up.

"What about werewolves? Those work better than vampires, scientifically. People've done similar things with gamma radiation, close enough that I can believe in wolf-people. Triggered human cellular transformation."