It was certainly how he'd survived, after his family had been slaughtered before him, that was for certain. And how he'd made it this long as a hunter as well. It isn't generally a very long-lived career, as his parents had tragically proved.

Whatever he'd been expecting, it hadn't been a book. He doesn't speak German, but he does recognize one word in the title, enough to have him further questioning who and what she is. "Can you speak German then?" he asks, trying to keep his nerves from being too much on edge -- and focusing on her otherness is not helping anyone in that regard.