'Never!' the Lyncan king said. 'I cannot give her to you. It will amount to signing her death warrant'.

'That is where you are wrong. I shall just take a little at a time', he answered his son. 'She will not die but might not be as strong as she would have been!'

'Her powers are what constitutes the totality of her being and personality. Take it, and no matter how cautious you are claiming you'd be, it will only turn her to an empty shell!' Then wondering why he was negotiating howled. 'And I shall not allow that. You might have allowed your father to talk you into murdering...