"Well," Juliana said, with finality, "Maybe a book like this can help them see the nuance. There couldn't be anything more opposed to what people typically think of when they hear about werewolves than motherhood."

This was, perhaps, saying a bit too much — she was not used to admitting to having such resolute feelings about lycanthropy with people she knew, and certainly not with strangers. It wasn't a very popular topic for a middle class young woman to have opinions about, and she liked to keep her research as far removed from the other aspects of her life as possible. It wasn't as though she could stop now, though — if she'd wanted to back out of this conversation she ought to have done that several minutes earlier.