“I think he wanted to call his hounds,” Samuel said. “But they had strayed too far for him to influence. He got something quite different.” “Werewolves,” said Ariana, then she turned her back to us, hunching her shoulders. I saw that there were scars on her back, too. “We attacked because we had to,” Samuel said gently. “But my father was stronger than we were, and resisted. He killed her father. We stopped, but she was so badly hurt. A human would have died or been reborn as one of us. She only suffered.” “You doctored her,” I said. “You helped her heal. You saved her.” Ariana crumpled—and
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