Nice setup. I totally didn’t expect the description to be of a dead body, but as more and more details were revealed it became apparent that the man in pink was not the monster, but a victim.

I’m a wolf enthusiast, but my five pencils are for the potential this has, and the creative name of the pack leader. Bobtail has a strange cadence.

I’m afraid I can’t take credit: this was based on a true story and that’s really what the Parisians called the wolf pack leader :)

Even so, you brought here to Ficly. I might sequel if I get inspired enough…

I remember reading about that story. An interesting setting. I like the fact nothing is explicitly explained yet. The historical events themselves are odd and ambigious to us, even today.

Lovely beginning to a tale, full of details, class conflict, and potential. Minor nitpick, the sentence in the first paragraph that starts, “But though the peasants…” could do without the ‘but’. I really liked how the cynicism of the cop mirrors what we deal with today, that causes become suddenly important because of the prominence of a particular victim.