“Phase One was when they introduced the drug and we lost precious children. In Phase Two, the deaths were drawn out. It was almost as if the juveniles’ wolves were fighting it. Our healers couldn’t even give them peace in their final moments. We couldn’t figure out where our children were getting these drugs from. We knew they weren’t ingesting them willingly. At that point, we hadn’t linked the vampires to the problem. They had been extremely helpful to us, you see, offering their ...