Moonstone Quarry hurt me? you can’t — i’ve got mounds of thick skin

Well, he had a point.

His derision, good-natured though it may have been, made her feel awkward, uncomfortable, and very, very young. Helplessly, frankly, “I don’t know,” Eirlys murmured, an applicable answer to all three of the male’s questions. She was on vastly unsteady ground, and she wasn’t charismatic enough to play it off or bluff her way through. “I’ve — I’ve never shared a dark cave with a stranger. I’ve never been here before,” she admitted. “I just wanted to go someplace new.”

“Do you really want me to leave?” she asked, wincing at how wistful the words sounded.