Investigation

Li put a wooden hand to his skull-white head. 

What to do?

Lady Zhen's inopportune rampage had driven this whole case upside down. Li had wanted to settle things quietly and within the boundaries of man's laws, but now, there were too a number of problems he had to solve. He could, if he spent some time to think about it, likely come to a reasonable way to solve them all, but 

First was explaining Chevrette's death. There was the matter of the daughter seeing him, but she had only seen his more monstrous forms. To be more specific, she had only clearly seen his Howling Ursine form too. Regardless, she had seen him, and that was the important part. The appearance of the Howling Ursine had to be explained.