How to explain a were to Zoe? How to explain it to anyone, really. It was one of those things that seemed to be inherently known by all. He'd never thought he'd need to find words for what it all boiled down to.
Certainly he'd never expected to have to do it as a dog.
He snorted, frustrated with himself. "MAN! THEN! WOLF! THEN! MAN!" Did that make sense? "WERE! WOLF! CHANGE! BACK!"
He sort of wished he could write. Or that Zoe had a W encyclopedia in her house. Anything to make this easier. Despite knowing mostly one syllable words, there just didn't seem to be good ones for this.
And he certainly couldn't tell her the why of any of it. He didn't know, himself. Why did the bite of a werewolf change a person into a werewolf? How did they come about to begin with? Did the wolf come first, or the person? Was it a disease, or magical?
Jesse just tilted his head in a sort of doggy shrug.