Hunter drives home in his newly-fixed car, sliding into the garage mere minutes before his dad arrives home. He breathes a sigh of relief when his father doesn't notice anything odd about the car, and just goes about his day as normal.
However, throughout the rest of the day, Hunter is bothered by the new emptiness inside of him. He had thought it was an aftereffect of Pyrus's spell that would wear off after a couple of hours, but it doesn't, even as the pain from the cut on his hand does. He decides he's got to speak to Pyrus about this. He can't go on feeling so empty and cold forever. He sneaks out of the house again, without his father noticing, and slips back to the potions shop.
Hunter opens the door to the shop tentatively, half-expecting the massive beast that Pyrus turned into earlier to greet him inside. Instead he just sees the wolf's normal form at the counter inside. "Hey, uh, you said you had something to explain to me, right?" Hunter asks. "Also, how come I feel so weird inside? What's going on?"