Book Five, Chapter 93: The Introduction of Chaos
Ever since we had unearthed Clara Withers, there had been this lingering question: what were we going to do with her?
The answer couldn’t be to leave her underground and ignore her. There were just too many possibilities.
We could have tried to set things up so that, when we removed the necklace from her desiccated body, the werewolf curse itself would fail. But I had no faith in that plan.
We could have tried to lead the pack leader to Clara in hopes that she would suddenly lose the will to fight when she found the corpse. Unfortunately, I had never been able to confirm the exact relationship between those two parties. Just guesses. I suspected their relationship changed with the story.
I mean, I wasn’t an idiot—I knew this was a tragic romance situation. But there were all sorts of things that could happen in a tragic romance. We knew going in, thanks to Cassie and her prediction, that there were two women—two lovers—fighting.
Was that fight still happening? I had no idea.
In the end, we were going to have to play it by ear.
I had it all pictured: I could take the necklace off the body, magically reviving Clara and putting an end to the violence all at once. As the two of them finally embraced each other after so many years—assuming that was the thing they were inclined to do—Kimberly would pop the pack leader in the head with a silver bullet.
Yes, it would be tragic.