CASSELBA REMAINS SEATED TILL THE HOUR goes by. Though her mind seeks many various ways to comprehend what she had just seen, and though her thoughts dance like dust flecks in a monsoon, she rigidly keeps herself to her seat.
At the moment, it hurt to even ponder on her thoughts. She might've as well killed Melanie herself. The girl was a human. She shouldn't have brought her into Canine wars. This sends Casselba into a guilt trip. All she had wanted was to bring an end to the Ferals. Along the way, it had gone all wrong.
They had lost many good men—human men—in the fight, but Melanie was the crack that had finally splintered the ice.
And now to find out that her killer is actually the last surviving Feral and the daughter of the unruly Alpha, Hiram Arespoulos. For Casselba, it's quite a lot. Since the day those murderous dickheads had massacred the RavenClaw pack at Los Padres, her life had become full of shit.
