Yep, this person is old.
The way she speaks about Irina, the ancient Amazon matriarch from thousands of years ago...
As if they were contemporaries, as if they had met and spoken, or maybe even been friends.
"Was Irina a friend of yours?" I asked her directly, curious about the connection between this ancient serpent-woman and the legendary Amazon matriarch.
Ah, and then something unexpectedly cute happened, something that completely contradicted the terrifying and powerful image that this creature had built up over the course of the past few chapters!
The big, scary serpent woman with the dark sclera, purple pupils, and the massive horns... began to blush a little bit.
A faint rosy color spread across her pale cheeks like dawn breaking over a winter landscape.
She seemed genuinely startled by my question, caught off guard by its directness, and she started scratching her chin with one long finger in a nervous and self-conscious gesture.
