"That's fairly true."  They either learned their lesson voluntarily, or Blackvayne made them learn their lesson.  "It's equally possible he did not think your witches would kill me, so he assumed I'd be stuck under their care and find a way to escape...And realize just how much better it would be if I just gave in to him. "  That was the first idea that actually made full sense in her mind.  It would not have been the first time he did something like this, just never on this scale.  Blackvayne was more than willing to hang someone out to dry or to hurt them, in order to make them feel indebted to him.  It bred the kind of loyalty he wanted, someone that felt like they owed him their life and livelihood.<br/><br/>"I just don't think they are so different from us, and not all of them are power hungry.  I agree, the ones that are...They can burn for what they've done and what they would do.  And I sort of assume humans would say the same about us.  We're dangerous too, aren't we?  Not on a grand scale, but there's a reason the humans take shelter under people like Blackvayne...They're not at the top of the food chain anymore."  She could see his reasoning, but she could not justify holding all humans accountable for the actions of the powerful and corrupt.<br/><br/>Vara decided to press the boundary with him, just to see what Geraint did in that sort of situation.  She swept up suddenly and took the bottle with the oil in it.  She looked at him with a bit of a challenging expression.  "I don't think I ever said I would let you rub the oil on me.  And covering each other in an ointment is not quite the intimidate act you're attempting to make it.  Maybe that's why you came along iwth me, you suffer the same affliction Blackvayne does...An attraction to me."  Humans would spend months in back and forth courtship, shyly trying to gain the hearts of their intended.  Wolves were usually more frank with it.  It was more instinctual and less fumbling.  There was no real reason for Vara not to point out what Geraint had already made obvious.