RETH
It was the hardest thing he'd ever done to just sit there and listen to Lucan twist everything about Elia, who she was, what she'd done, and her involvement in coming to Anima.
"…she readily admitted today that she knows she had contact with Anima when she was young—yet claims she didn't know until she came here? How could that possibly be? Clearly she was working with some among our people and we, the wolves, were manipulated in our scouting for a Sacrifice."
Elia had dropped her chin and was shaking her head slowly, glaring at Lucan without pause. But she stayed true to his caution to keep her mouth shut. Despite Brant's obvious wariness of Lucan, he wouldn't accept a breach of the traditions—even from the Queen. But especially when she was charged.
