"You're supposed to go the other way. Why are you following me?" "I'm making sure you don't run off and leave me alone. I can't trust anything you say or do" He grunted, breaking an overgrown branch that was blocking his way. She made another claw mark on a tree "What's with the marks?" "So I know the way back" "Are you sure you're not marking the way for your people?" She stopped abruptly, panic flitting across her eyes as she asked "What people?" "The ones you won't talk about. Did you ask them to kill Violet?" "Goddess, will you drop it? I didn't ask anyone to kill Violet. If I wanted her dead, I could have done it on my own" "Oh yeah? How? Convince me you weren't in on it" "Are you kidding me? All I had to do was challenge her to fight with me to the death. Or turn her

