Blackfeather Woods tolling on the iron bell

The strange ritual with the crow was exactly that: strange. What Maegi admitted ventured more closely to dangerous, and Ramsay felt the slow simmer of uncertainty beginning in his belly. Could they trust Abraxas to keep his strange behaviours to himself, or would they need to constantly be worried about him? That was the real question. Of her experimentation, he said nothing. He didn't necessarily disapprove, for the only one she could hurt with such things was herself. He didn't like it, but he didn't disapprove.

I worry that his... unique attributes could be prelude to something worse, Ramsay admitted. Because what she said was true. Abraxas was not threatening yet, but that didn't mean he couldn't become a threat to the members of the woods. Did the more bloodthirsty of our line exhibit strange proclivities like that? They hadn't that he could recall, but it would be a good baseline for whether they should expect worse or not.