The books I kept reading explained less than what I had expected; they were clearly giving me strict information and weren’t being fair to me.
Every lay book focused on the fear a woman should have toward men—how they are strong, and therefore we are weak. The last book was the only interesting one out of the twenty they had placed on the table for me to read.
This was volume one of eight, each titled "The Cycle of the Moon." The first volume, *New Moon*, described how werewolves came to be. It depicted the story of Selene, the moon goddess, pleasing her elder brother Lycaon to avoid his anger. In doing so, she spoke to Kore, the goddess of spring.
Kore had just moved in with her husband Hades, and in the middle of her transition, she created a plant called wolfsbane—a flower that Lycao
