章 40: I Hate It that He is Always Right

Lucia arched her eyebrows for a moment, surprised by that sudden question. 

"I think of them the same way everybody else does, Lady Drella. They are nothing more but civilized animals whose sole power is based on instilling fear into everybody else."

Drella chuckled, standing closer to her friend. "You do not have to pretend, Lady Lucia. And that was not what I was asking about."

Lucia found herself caught off-guard again. "Then what is it that you want to know?"

"There is no need to be coy! Their appearance, of course! Don't you find them irresistibly dashing?"

Lucia moved her attention to the gathering of the beasts in the center of the banquet hall and carefully scrutinized every single one of them.