Silverlight Terrace And if I'd stare too long

"Yeah, really?" Wraen looked at him skeptically, when Screech declared that he had been cooking up battle tactics from behind the lines and that his sudden outburst had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he was terrified. Scared. Shitless.

She did not blame him - she would also have fled the bear, if she had seen one in a distance, but then again she would not have been stupid enough to boast around that she was not a coward. 

Now, what am I going to do with you... Wraen pondered, sitting down and looking at the self-proclaimed hero up and down. "Liar, I might be, but I was testing you - bear-fighter. And I am sorry to say that you do not strike me as a person, who could take down a bear. A mouse - maybe, but nothing bigger than that."