So, you fought a serpent?" Tristan began with a tinge of unbelief. "Are you talking like ankle-level size or monstrous?"
"Monstrous is an understatement. I actually earned a fang but displaced it during the chaos with the demon wolves."
"Wolves!" He exclaimed dramatically.
Audrey glared at him. "I'm not making it up."
He chuckled, rubbing her shoulder. "Just messing with you. Now, you said something about demon wolves…"
She pursed her lips. "They were not actually demons like spawns-of-hell kind of arrangement. More like possessed or deranged."
She went on to tell them how the serpent had swooped in from nowhere to save her life. Just the mere memory of it raised goosebumps over her skin.
The narration got tricky around the bestowment of serpentine essence part.
Tristan frowned. "Essence?" He glanced at his twin who had been silent the entire time. "The illusive life thread you won't shut up about?"
