You accept, you'really hungry, and maybe he'll explain this world to you.

You nod in silence. You don't really have much of a choice, you're really hungry and if he can help, it's an ally you really need.

Standing back up, you instantly notice how tall you are in comparison to him. His head is barely at the same level as your navel.

"I'm Faragus, by the way." He says, extending his hand to shake yours.

You lend down and shake it.

"I... hum... don'th acthualy know my name..." You admit.

The man seems surprised.

"Oh... let's call you, Shalya..." He tells you. "It means snake in the old language."

You'll take that name for now, even if you know it's not your real name. So you nod and break the hand shaking.

After that, Faragus, takes a bow and arrows from the saddle of his horse and start hunting. You follow from afar and look how he surprisingly takes down one of the hogs with only one precise hit.

After that he prepares the beast and cook it. You can finally eat a good lunch and appreciate the moment.

"Ssso, the humans don'th usualy mixss up with the monssterss ?" You ask.

"Did you hit your head or something ? Of course not !" He answers. "Monsters kill or enslaves us and we fight back. It's a constant war !"

"Oh, ssure... ssso, I'll never be able to go intho a ssity..." You think out loud.

"You really are a weird monster... why would you go in a city ? It's not your place. Anyway, the tree of sorrow is deep in the wild forest. In the middle of the monster territory." Faragus explains.

"Why do you need tho find that three ?"

"To help my family."

After that you talk about the travel and various things about him. He's twenty-three years old, he learned to fight in a fighting school and his mom and sister are sick. The tree of sorrow will cure them and is four days of walk in the forest.

You're about to leave the camp when you ear something heavy walking toward you.