Juliana should have expected that he would eventually take some passing interest in her, since she had been putting questions to him for so long and typically people liked conversations to be more participatory and less like interrogations. All the same, she felt very put on the spot by the question, and for a moment she didn't know how to answer. She glanced down at the copy of the book in her hand as though considering, though she was really just trying to buy a moment before speaking.

"I'm not sure," she decided. "Has there ever been a book like this? Female werewolves aren't exactly a popular subject, in fiction or nonfiction," she said with a shrug. "Actually, you know, I think some people didn't even think women could be werewolves until the news about the Minister's daughter broke."