he bit his bottom lip to ease the pain from seeing her like this , she barely recovered from the injury that happened before in the forest , and now she 's hurt again , in her own home , by her own mother . 'they all said you could n't make a staff out of metal , they said they should only be of wood , but they were wrong . that thought had always been disturbing , but now that shed met so many vampires , it bothered her more . 