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326. Wolf in the Night
~ CASIMIR ~
I paced that cell, grinding my teeth, hands clenched at my sides as I cracked his mind open like an egg—careful not to change anything, but sending those sifting threads through him just as surely as I did with any wolf under the mountain.
He’d managed to evade my torrent of searching power because I’d sent everything towards the catacombs, while he’d been downhill from us.
I wasn’t going to make that mistake a second time.
Much as I hated it, I was using a technique my father had taught me.
The power, like anything else, needed to be molded and directed. Compelling a person to truth and nothing else was fine—if you knew the questions to ask. But compulsion created its own ri
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