“Just take anything you can imagine and make it ten times more deadly—then you’d be halfway there.” She cackles and hands the map to me. “Don’t follow voices or lights in the trees, make no bargains with hags, do not eat or drink of fae food, and if you hear a mighty howl that shakes the leaves and the air, you may as well bend over and kiss your ass goodbye because the Beast of Gevaudan is coming for you.”

