Chapter Eighteen
On Earth, there is a thing in some religions called “Karma.” The simple meaning of the word is what goes around comes around. As Beautimus teaches her students, under the laws of Karma, if you do something awful, like stealing a sacred object, killing a tree, or committing murder, something bad will happen to you. Belinda was about to face Karma head on, and Beautimus knew it. The Glyphs had told her so.
Heatherton the rat, still under investigation for the thefts at the Wasenia Fair, cased the dens of the coyotes late in the evening of the WSRT meeting. He knew some of the Coyote People were rather well-off, and most seemed to like being out at night. He hoped to discover an unlocked door, a window with a loose latch, or a back entrance to an empty den so he could slip
