The runes? [She turned a little and ran her finger up along her spine, over her clothes.] Loki put them onto the bones of my spine. They... dampen the hormones that tie to my instincts, but when they get really bad on a new moon it pretty much puts me into a pain-filled coma for the day. That, along with the tea... it's been enough so far.

[She always had those on hand.]

It doesn't change that I have the instincts to hunt, to take whatever I want, but at least it's more under my control instead of the other way around now.