"If you're not from here, not marked, and powerful enough to casually stop my attacks, then why are you really here?"
"I'm looking for some people."
She raised an eyebrow.
"That's a very vague answer. A human somehow appears inside the Prime Territory, specifically inside Region Three, and you're expecting me to believe you're just here looking for people?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying."
"And I'm supposed to believe that?"
I shrugged.
"Whether you believe it or not doesn't really change the truth."
She stared at me for a few seconds before shaking her head.
"Fine. What people?"
"People carrying the surname Ironhart."
The reaction lasted less than a second. A slight widening of her eyes. A tiny pause in her breathing. A flicker of recognition.
Then it was gone.
But I had already seen it.
"Never heard the name before," she replied calmly.
"Is that so?"
"Yes."
Her answer came too quickly.
