"Kaedwyn!" Chris exclaimed in surprise.
"Do you know him?" Howard asked.
"Of course, I do!" Chris stood up abruptly, her face contorted with uncontrollable anger.
"Those bandits... If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have ended up like this!"
She burst out, but then, remembering her encounter with Howard and the relatively better turn her life had taken, she quickly corrected herself, "If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have become a slave!"
"What happened?" Howard inquired, sensing that Chris's grudge against Kaedwyn could be advantageous.
Gazing out the window into the night, Chris seemed to fall into a reverie.
"That day, my comrades and I were fiercely resisting the Night Demon when that band of thieves, led by Kaedwyn, appeared. They slaughtered all my companions."
