DAMON.
Cathy is still giggling as we walk in.
"What is so funny?" I ask.
"Nothing serious," she says. "How was your day?"
"Long. But satisfying. It gives me great pleasure to frustrate his plans in trying to get you."
"About that, I was thinking, it doesn't make sense."
"What doesn't?"
"About him wanting to kill me. I mean, he doesn't know anything about the Wolf King, Wolf Queen bit. And he has had me for what, four, five days. He knows I am not that strong. So why wait?"
"Wait?"
"Steele said he was watching us the day I woke up, from the shadows of the tree. I was looking at them this evening, and the distance between the branches and the window is very close. It would have been an easy thing to get to me. Especially when I was sleeping alone."
That... that makes sense.
"But t
