She knew of the troubles, being half neko herself. She’d simply followed the same guidelines she had followed to get her own brother out of the same problem. Stephen was home now, save with a human mother, his birth mother.

“Fine. Stay here. Get caught by the dogs. Get killed. See if I care.” Alana stormed off, the anger starting to reach her that Katherine was so ungrateful.

“Wait,” she called. Alana turned around, her eyes tinted ever so slightly a shade of red. Oh great, I got a half demon to save me, Katherine thought. Always with the weirdos.

“Hm?” Alana asked, keeping her sentences down so that she wouldn’t notice her deeper voice.

“Think you may be able to help me?”