At the time, she had been helpless. But her husband had gotten his end when a beautiful stranger had come with an offer she couldn't pass up on... Aleera hisses when he tells her about being branded. Although the war had ended a different kind of hate is brewing in the south. She says nothing to his rough life comment. They walk along until they reach a wooded part of the plantation. So he kills his prey hmm? Aleera spots a sickly old deer not to far off. "Kill the deer but do not drink from it," she tells Dagger.  Usually she wouldn't let the deer go to waste, but it would serve as good practice for the sireling.