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This day I have heard evil things.

Ashley Magnus has told me something of what befell her at the hands of Montague John Druitt, how he terrorized her, how he touched her, what he told her of himself and of her mother, how he took her locket from her and why, how he told her that he would be able to find her again at any time he wanted for as long as he lived, how he intended to kill her while she was helpless.

And she told me that her mother has never asked her about any of this, nor spoken of Druitt to her. Nor has Will Zimmerman, the healer of minds. I am the only one who has asked.

Poor child. I can identify with her situation. My own mother ran our clan, and she was ever oblivious to the anger in me, her youngest son. I doubt to this day she has even noticed my absence from the clan's territory. Yet, if another clan member's fur was so much as ruffled, she was there to soothe, avenge and mend before they drew their next breath.

And I think that even I have not heard the whole story from Ashley. In many ways I raised that small, bright, fierce, deadly warrior, and I know her mind and its workings, her ways and moods and what they all mean, just as well as I know her scent.

I wonder if Dr. Magnus has noticed that her child has gone and left this furious shadow to carry the guns in Ashley's place.

I wonder if she cares.