She seated herself in a chair by the window. Wolf stretched out across the bed whilst Elias paced back and forth, retelling to the witch the same story he had relayed in New York. Griselda did not interupt him, but at the ending, she leapt up suddenly to point a finger sharply at Wolf.

"Ssss! Fool wolf! You brought this danger here, to this kingdom? This is a curse transmissible by touch! What if this creature escapes and runs loose in the countryside?"she hissed at him. Wolf flinched, but only for a moment. He bounded up off the bed and fixed her with an angry stare of his own.

"He is not 'a creature', witchling! He is a man, my friend. He needs help, that's all. If you do your job well, there will be no danger! Besides, he will not willingly stay at liberty here when the next moon comes, which is but three days hence! So, if you will not, or can not help us here, say so now, so that we may find another who may!" Wolf's eyes were glittering with his cold green gaze and Elias did not know how the young woman stood up under it.

A Tenth Kingdom werewolf begs Virginia and Wolf to help him find a cure for his affliction in this sequel to Moonlover's novel Once Bitten.