Ava gave Jack a pause before whispering. 'It's in the sex itself. The sweat, the proximity … the violation of her body and the seed placed inside it.' Her voice was growing edgier, wilder. 'They're taught it's the law, that it's a good thing. Maybe some of them even want to be 'wolves, I don't know. Whatever, they have no say in it. If they won't consent, they get raped.'
Jack couldn't help it, he placed a hand on her shoulder. Even as she crossly shook him off, he could tell she was shaking.
'It's been going on for centuries,' Ava whispered flatly, back in control. 'But like any closed community, inbreeding causes problems: physical deformity, proneness to disease.'
Jack frowned. 'Your family looked all right to me.'
