“I don’t know about that,” I said quietly. “I keep running her history through my head over and over again. Can you imagine what it’s been like for her? To have a prophecy whispered in your ear that you would be the most powerful being on the mountain?
That you will bring wolves into a new age? Manipulation. Hell, I could go as far as even call it hypnotism. She tried to brush it off. She killed her daughters to make sure she could never sacrifice them, that she would never turn into a monster. And all it did was make her sink even lower.
“In Finn, she saw salvation. A boy. A child she could keep and love. Maybe that could save her. Then my mother comes and has me. Claudine had thought she’d escaped, but there I was, proof that she was still on the same road.
The whispers take hold ag
