The little girl screamed gleefully.
"Can I keep it? Can I keep it!?"
She jumped in excitement, only for loud, boisterous laughter to follow.
"Grifenne, the mighty huntress, abducting a beast! Hahahahaha!"
The laughter rumbled through the air until a face appeared beside her.
It was another giant, with a thick black beard and half his face covered in soot.
"Please, Gorionda. Pleaseeee," the girl begged, clutching Everlearn's cage and holding it up close.
The sight of him made Gorionda's laughter freeze on his lips.
His expression shifted as he looked closely at the creature inside.
"Oh?"
"Looks like an interesting beast…" he murmured, giving Everlearn a thorough look before turning back to the little girl.
"But I will always say this, Grifenne, once trapped in a cage, always a beast!"
"And though he might look cute and cuddly, once you grab a red-hot iron from the depths of the forge like this…"
He said this as he pulled out a glowing iron rod dripping with molten lava.
