"Such thick iron chains, all to imprison a little thing like you?" Evangeline arched an eyebrow.
She wasn't one to judge by appearances, but when she'd prodded the Snow Ferret, she had sent a sliver of Spiritual Energy into its body. She hadn't detected anything amiss—not even a shadow of the surging poison source. It seemed like an ordinary little animal, not even a Beastman.
She would sooner believe the poison's source was a worm than this little creature before her.
But the fact that this Snow Ferret could move through the toxic mist with ease was itself bizarre.
Evangeline's movement made the Snow Ferret freeze. Its pitch-black eyes stared at her unblinkingly. Her face was reflected in their bottomless, profound depths, as if it held a world of emotions that had all returned to silence.
"Are you a Beastman?" Evangeline met its eyes, her own gaze flickering slightly.
'An ordinary Wild Beast wouldn't have a gaze like that.'
