The monkey now had no other way other than answering Rex's question because it seemed as if jo matter where he ran, Rex would ultimately reach that place.
"...", but the lonely seemed a bit hesitant.
This basically due to the fact that the beats and humans probably never contacted with each other. They susallu stayed out of each other's ways.
But recently many humans started to hunt many beasts due to which some beasts utterly hated humans while some feared them.
They wanted to literally stay away from the humans and never face them as they knew that nothing good would come by facing humans since they were majority in and were too cunning.
That was the same for the monkey too who wanted to stay out of Rex's way.
Also, if he were to tell Rex about it then he feared that Rex might blame him for lying and thus he might end up killing him.
"Come on! Tell me!", Rex asked again.
