*A/N: The real Pine Barrens are located in New Jersey and are the home of the notorious Jersey Devil legend.*
Naomi POV
Rose was safe.
She lay asleep in the Healing Wing with Luna Lilia and Pack Mother Ravyn of the Evenhide Pack pouring healing energies over her, and Wise Woman Roslynn and Wise Woman Tulaska chanting and shaking their medicine rattles in a steady beat.
Rose was safe and home. She didn’t have the blank eyes of Hades’ new crop of slaves. True, she’d destroyed her own weaving … but she wasn’t completely far gone.
“Why did she tear the banner to shreds?” she asked.
Without missing a beat, Roslynn replied, “Perhaps remembering who she really is, her artist’s soul, and hating any reminder of it. And Hades told her to.”
Tulaska snorted. “He rips apart souls with no more thought than that. Killing is too good for him. A Wise Woman shouldn’t say this, but he deserves no mercy.”