The world, and Ophelie, were not prepared for what was about to happen.



    

To eat another sentient creature was bad enough. To do so while the prey was whole and alive was such a further depth of depravity that the law against it specified no punishment too extreme. Not that there were a lack of things to savor and eat, of co

    

Anna’s bare paws scrambled across the ground, trampling the carefully planted garden.



    

Sidling up to the thin wooden walls of the house, she pressed her sensitive ears against it and listened for movement. Vision was useless right now. She closed her eyes and sniffed the air for signs of the home’s owner.