Otter Creek All my flowers grew back as thorns.

"Can't say that I have met them face to face until now," Wraen replied (unknowingly she had - in fact - met some members from this group previously), feeling torn between the curiousity about this notorious pack and the fact that she was not even supposed to stand here chatting with this wolf. But Takiyok did not seem bad and not at all different from her. So the image of enemy did not stick well with this person in front of her.

"But there are rumours about the dark stuff this pack does - is there any truth in them?" she asked.