"I'm not allowed to tell," Sunny said, something that was simultaneously very simple, but extremely difficult. There were times that she wanted nothing more than to tell her mother, but...

"There are punishments for that, and they're pretty severe." Of course, most punishments in the Leopard world were severe, and only became more so when you were grown. It wasn't uncommon to die or go insane as a result of being put in the Library's basement. "There's a very low tolerance for anything to do with exposing Lambs to our world. And by low, I mean basically zero."