Now the girl thought she was going to give him orders. How amusing, that she might think he'd have any reason to comply with anything she wanted. As if he couldn't quiet her himself whenever he pleased! At that, the creature opened both of his eyes and stared at her for a long moment, before bursting out with a savage, raucous laugh. "Funny little girl! Think you can demand things of me?"
Standing there like that, though, almost inviting him to topple her from the ledge when he could easily do so, there was something uniquely and respectably Adelan about that. Pitiful though it was that she didn't have the strength to back it up, she did have courage, and that was more than some. "At least you have guts, I suppose." An odd, almost rueful, smile twisted the creature's muzzle and he closed his eyes again. "He killed my brother. Not in a fight, no honourable death, but through cowardice. War hero? Pah!"