The pack members who'd once viewed her with curiosity or sympathy now looked at her with suspicion and disgust. When she was allowed out of her cell for brief walks in the courtyard, wolves would cross to the other side of the path to avoid her. Children were hurried away when she appeared. The whispers followed her everywhere.

"I heard she killed twelve wolves with her bare hands and felt nothing."

"My cousin said she seduced all four brothers in a single night using witch potions."

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