He shut his mouth as his ears perked forward. “I can’t be that bad,” he said, trying to hide his concern for her. He had never known a human to go into shock over a goblin. It would have been funny if she was not so serious about it.
Her head throbbed and she did loose her balance, though she caught herself on a tree. “This is…a night terror. I’m still sitting in George’s classes and he’s going to slam the book shut any moment and wake me up–” She was supposed to rule over lands, commandeer an army one day but the sight of a talking creature frightened her? How was she fit to be a queen?
