[ .. many centuries ago? Even just a simple statement like that, slipped in between everything else, is telling the girl a whole lot about him. Apparently immortal, or near-immortal, and has some sort of magic..
That gets him pretty close to the witches from her world, though that isn't necessarily a good connection. He seems a whole lot more normal than them though, but the girl isn't sure whether that's just a guise. If he's pretending to be more innocent than he really is, in order to trick her.
It wouldn't be the first time a witch tried that. ]
Yes.
[ And yet that answer rolls off her tongue practically instintively. She doesn't even have to think about it before she's already puffing up - figuratively, anyway, more like a pout - like a pufferfish. ]
I mean, secondly, you can't just mention awful stuff you've been through that casually to other people! Even if you think you could hold your own if something bad were to happen again, are you just going to trust anyone at all you come across that easily?
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That gets him pretty close to the witches from her world, though that isn't necessarily a good connection. He seems a whole lot more normal than them though, but the girl isn't sure whether that's just a guise. If he's pretending to be more innocent than he really is, in order to trick her.
It wouldn't be the first time a witch tried that. ]
Yes.
[ And yet that answer rolls off her tongue practically instintively. She doesn't even have to think about it before she's already puffing up - figuratively, anyway, more like a pout - like a pufferfish. ]
I mean, secondly, you can't just mention awful stuff you've been through that casually to other people! Even if you think you could hold your own if something bad were to happen again, are you just going to trust anyone at all you come across that easily?