Emmalyn was still focused on the stone. I started thinking of why the human or the witch might have wanted to put a stone like that into someone from the pack. It wasn’t like they knew I’d be here. Maybe the other stone was in a member of another pack. The collective was too expansive to pick a single person. “The quartz is programmed for acceptance and trust. It’s activated by a code word. The other two stones will have the same code word activation,” Emmalyn said. “Are they all programmed for acceptance and trust?” I asked. “No. The stones were all created together and from the same piece of quartz, but each of the stones might have different properties. The power wouldn’t have been soaked into the quartz until after the stones had formed. The person who created the stones would ha