Ankyra Sound He greets me with kisses when good days deceive him.

She was mollified despite herself by the fact that he seemed to take her comment pretty much in stride.  She'd been right in thinking it hadn't been Drageda, but she was surprised that it was something she had distinct history with as well.

Nasty things, she said with a lift of her lip.  She had scars of her own from years ago, though they were mostly hidden by time and the thick fur on her sides.  Her first time in the grotto, and another time she'd managed to cheat death only barely.  Quick on surprise but not impossible to outrun.  If you're lucky.  Im impressed you lived.  With wounds like that there's no way he'd run away.  He'd either been saved or managed to kill the beast, but either way, he must have some will to survive.