Ryan was staring at Violet intently, but when she met his eyes, he looked away.
"There will be things that work sometimes but not others," he said. He looked shifty like there was something he wanted to say but did not want to say at all. "The thing is, Carl has a bit of a problem in that area." He twiddled his thumb and looked at the ceiling and Violet supposed he probably was not supposed to talk about it. "It is the opposite of my problem. We both have trouble maintaining the balance between wolves and humans within us. With myself, I cannot hold the wolf back. It dominates my consciousness. With Carl, it is as if his wolf is blocked somehow. In all the years that I have known him, I have never seen him transform. I don't know why, if it is a decision he has made, or if it is psycholo
