Triana bit her lip and dropped her eyes: «I don't understand why things turned out this way... My uncle said he had a good friend in this forest who would protect us and teach me something new but…» – Triana shed a quiet tear. – «My uncle died protecting me from the hunters... He sacrificed himself so that the mean humans wouldn't get his niece, and then you harnessed me…» – Her voice was full of grief, gradually giving way to sadness and, finally, resignation to cruel fate.
Kyon felt pity for her. Now he understood why the tigress was so eager to kill him. She was taking her revenge on him for her uncle. However, his sympathy lasted only a second. What else did she expect in enemy territory? It was either him or the hunters. Triana was nothing but a trophy.