Two Rivers Isle This sounds like the perfect opportunity for cannibalistic measures to be taken

Burke sat next to her, briefly confused because he was pretty certain that Malice killed her mother, and she disliked her. The male cleared his throat. "Well, I wouldn't know that. But maybe she is? Sorry. I am confused here, I thought you disliked your mother and killed her?," he spoke. She had said so in their first meeting, babbling about her past.

However, Burke wanted to be supportive and gave her another lick. "I'm proud of you," he spoke then which was pretty cute of him if he said so himself. Maybe that was what mattered more. Not wondering about the death and what they were thinking, because they are not. But rather what the living were thinking, one that was close to her.