Katrina exclaims, "She meant no harm!"

We leave the room, Daina and I.

Daina, on the other hand, is staring me now.

"Why you would poison your own child. Wolfsbane use was highly forbidden in our pack. "

I can hear her heartbeat increase and smell her anxiety.

"I grew it." Expressionlessly, she answered.

"The commercial cultivation of wolfsbane was prohibited. There's no good reason for you to grow it and give it to your own daughter. You should know that I have the power to have you ejected or perhaps murdered because of the nonsense you are spewing. Is that the real reason you left your last pack—to avoid...