Helanie:
"Sorry, what did you say?" She had a fake smile on her face, but her words sounded like a final warning to Kaye.
He probably had a minute to take his words back and not interrupt when she was talking to me. Like I said, her whole vibe was off most of the time.
"I said—Helanie has fought monsters before," Kaye repeated himself, his shoulders broad with pride as he praised me for my strength. "And Helanie's wolf is unlike anything we've ever seen. So let's just say, it's not that she fought a weak beast and won. She showed her wolf, which people are still talking about for a reason."
I watched her not lose her smile even once. It must have been so hard for her to hear Kaye compliment me. But I was surprised to see her expression stay the same as before.
"Alright," she replied, "but fighting monsters on land or even the flying ones is easy." She shrugged. "You see, this is your territory. You'll always win."
