Sabine shook her head. "I do not think you understand. I am not the first in my pack to get captured. Fendros and Ahnasha were taken once. By someone very cruel. They did not talk about what happened but I eavesdropped once. It made me feel sick. But they took many years to recover. They had nightmares, during the night and the day."

The wood of the staff creaked as Sabine wrung it. "It has not happened to me yet. It might not. I do not know why. I have not been sleeping much, maybe that it why. My pack would not want me risking myself either way."