~ ZEV ~
Skhal submitted, dropping his head and putting his eyes down. But his shoulders were tense, and his tone impatient. "She may be only following her instincts, just as any of us would," he said reluctantly. "We cannot escape the possibility. You aren't in her head. You can't know."
Lhars looked at Zev then who tried to hide the fact that he was breathing too deeply, too quickly.
To tell them? Would they believe him, though? If he was forced to it like this? And he still wasn't certain they didn't have actual spies and betrayers among the Alpha Council, who were reporting to the humans. If he told them this, the humans might hear about it and that would remove the power from them.