"Most Humans would be," she replied. "Unless they were hunters."

Ariadne's family had learned that the hard way, when she was a child. Lief, her brother, had ventured too close to the Human settlement on the fringes of the Deleo forest. They'd found him days later, stripped bare and bald as a melon.

It had taken ages for him to even start speaking again.

Really, Ariadne supposed, the better question was why she wasn't afraid. Of course, she knew the answer to that.

A small smile played on her lips. "But you're not." She knew that too.