Northstar Vale tea leaves

"they chose to leave early."

"but maybe it was never early for them." mostly wolf with a touch of coyote, perhaps it had been that vestige they all answered in the end. 

her heart sang with hurt. she wanted to tell him she had rarely ever felt beautiful in her life. but was that the coywolf which spoke, or the woman?

"i was a slave to them." tamar slowly rose, charged with a new, restless energy. "i know their cruelty. they are grandiose beings. stay away from those who call themselves royal. see that your children do the same."

a softening; a slight expression of encouragement. 

and her heart spoke and said that her children had been led away for the vile wickedness she had allowed arsenio and germanicus to commit.