"And why," Yina growls dangerously, " did they not care for your company any more? Could it be they found you untrustworthy? Did they think you would put a dagger in their backs? Did you steal from them? Tell us, and speak the truth, or you join your dead kin."
*Yina is very suspicious, particularly because of the verrik's all-too-timely arrival. Also, inwardly she seeths at the giant's cowardice, and wants something to take her anger out on.*
He thinks the children could not have survived here? Fool, children can survive things that would kill their elders, simply because they are unpradictable. Look at myself, I was young when my village was attacked, yet I survived where others older and wiser than I perished. He is a coward and a fool, and we're well rid of him, she thinks to herself.