“I’ll stab you if you turn wolf,” he reminds me. “But when we hit the ground, I’ll stab anyone at your back. She’s a Simpleton pup. The more I see of her, the more I realize who she is and what’s really going on here. I can’t let that poor girl look to have more spine than I do in front of a legion of our people, who don’t understand what’s going on. There will be more of that than the ones who see it for what it is.”
