The world is a different place in this new century, [. . . ]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [. . . ] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.
I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.