She smells the blood. Damn, girl is part hound herself but she doesn't let that betray her, "Someone who tried to work around the rules, then disrespected my position... she won't make the same mistake again. Now. neither one of you has been allowed into that room. The rules didn't change, not THOSE rules, because neither I nor the baron changed it there . Not yet. Dame Calanthe is gone for now, perhaps for longer than one of you will like, perhaps not as long as the other of you would wish. Now, Blossom, she was kind to you if she was kind to anyone, but she was not kind to many. And while she saved your life, she also did great harm. She was a hero for a moment, more than one, but also a villainess at the end. People are like that. They are complex and conflicted and confusing. But you cannot live in the past, not for your own sake and not for someone else's. You're too smart for that. And Briar, you were I thought told not to rub it into anyone' face that Calanthe was gone? I don't think that meant just directly either. You're smart enough to know THAT. You two, like it or not, are of the same pack. I'll let you growl at each other now and then, but I will not allow you to tear each other apart, verbally or otherwise. "