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Sophia nodded "I chose to sponsor Luciana because I feel she has soed I understand and accept responsibility for the coven’s actions here tonight"

Luciana’s gaze rinned and I shuddered There wasn’t an once of good in that lady And I was pretty sure she was insane

"That one," she pointed to Dastien, without any lead into the speech at all--"took our next leader You see, Teresa is unbelievably strong Maybe so?"

She paused, and I wondered if she and Iene had coordinated their speeches

"Her powers are only going to grow As I understand it, Weres develop their powers over decades, but this is not the case with brujas We don’t have such long lives, so we gain a little power at birth, and then that power blossoathered all hung on the edges of their seats Even if the witches and Weres had a big history together, it see inforold for the pack

"Teresa was strong at birth," Luciana continued as she raised her had toward s that no one else could Her powers have grown ever since, and will continue growing for the next few years If you think she’s dangerous now, just wait If you can’t control her nohat do you think will happen then?"

Controlto take away odda about taking away ain "That’s not the worst of it Hoould you feel if we took one of your Seven? That’s what he’s done" She paused to stab her finger at Dastien "One of our great leaders, gone And it’s his fault" She finished another loop around "Do what you ith him It matters not to us But her, she’s ours You will return her or face ith our kind"

Luciana paused before turning to Mr Dawson "I want you to think about that About what’s to come should you decide to keep--"

"Your three minutes are up Yeats, please escort them off our land"

"I don’t need an escort We don’t want to stay here a second longer than we have to" She stormed off, but the Cazadores followed her anyway

That wasn’t so bad, Dastien said

Not so bad? She basically said I was too dangerous to be a wolf, and that if the pack doesn’t hand me over, then she--and the rest of the witches of the world--are going to go to ith the packs

Exactly

So how is that not so bad?