Blacktail Deer Plateau Now you know, now you know

It was sheer luck that every encounter Saena ever had with Taltos began with her doing or saying something crazy. The man's first impression of her had surely been a bad one, given she had openly lied to his face (and he'd known it, she later realized). She'd just loped past him, barely even seeing him for the speed of her trot in an effort to escape the ghost-or-whatever-it-was, when he called out to her in the low baritone manner that wolves often did. Aw, crap, he knows about the bear, was her illogical thought. She stopped suddenly, like hitting a brick wall, and turned somewhat woodenly toward him.

"Hey, Lasher," she said a little too brightly, with a grin plastered on her face that showed a little too much enthusiasm. "Uh... Ain't seen no bears here!" If Lasher's first impression of Saena a few months ago was a bad one, then this one was shaping up to be worse.