Glad to have made a compromise, Briar Rose
went back to the task of collecting herbs for her aunts.
”Oh, I live out here. So, I suppose wandering purposely,
but I know where I’m going. What brings you out here?”
❝Hunting monsters.❞
{ it wasn’t as vague as rose would’ve liked,
but she at least knew that she wouldn’t go
into further explanation about what those
monsters were. more for her own sake than the
stranger who stood before her. }