The expression I stare at grew frostier, but still not *angry*. Reading the neutral, selfish motives of good people is an important skill for a royal to develop.
Knowing how to use and move people to your advantage meant knowing what they wanted in life. From others, from you, from themselves.
The sole werewolf doctor I've met here, one that specializes in the fertility of her kind? With a child that has mutated specifically thanks to the desire of their Lunar Goddess, said to be the new bloodline meant to fix whatever problems they had set in motion…
> Her overall ethics may be solid when it comes to the healer's oath, but the reality is this represents an opportunity for study that she would be remiss to pass up. <
I will not ignore that she was not immediately open with me about that craving. She may have only used it to screen for diseases. She may not have.
