"Simple enough," I told her. "You just have to help me defend the entire Great Ocean."
"Huh?" she said, staring at me as though I had just said something completely ridiculous. "What? Do you seriously think something as vast as the Great Ocean could actually be conquered that easily for you to be worrying about it like this?"
She laughed after saying that, looking like she had just heard one of the most ridiculous things imaginable. She even scratched the side of her ear with her pinky, almost as though she needed to physically check whether she had heard me correctly.
