"You were aware enough not to attack me," John says thoughtfully, watching as their apartment building comes into view. "Are you conscious of yourself as still being a person while you've changed?"

Given his admittedly limited knowledge of folklore, he would have thought a werewolf would attack blindly. That seems to be the way they're always written, the suggestion that they're monsters and little else prevalent in nearly all the stories he's ever read or seen.

But Jake hadn't attacked him. He'd come out of the trees and then changed, leading John to think he must be at least partly aware of who he is and the difference between right and wrong.