A chill ran down Severin's spine because he couldn't figure out what the thing in front of him really was. A monster? A beast of some kind?
A human?
Severin reminded himself that he didn't know anything about the place, and the monkey man must have come to him specifically for a reason.
His eyes still didn't leave him. "Then, what if I have no stories to tell?"
His eyes narrowed, and the golden red fur on the monkey man bristled. "But you must. Everyone has a story to tell. Besides, you're new here, aren't you?"
Severin stiffened, and his eyes narrowed, his body ready to leap into action immediately. "What are you talking about?"
"You don't recognize me. But you should, especially when I talked about stories. You don't recognize, you don't know me, you are new here!"
The monkey man walked forward and then bent down, his reddish eyes on him. "A new person. Now that's something. The last new person we had didn't get to meet me. All those stories."
