"In my world, that's always the safest bet." She only had hints of what her world was like, but violence was all too common in hers-violence or the threat of it.

"So he's experienced something to do with monsters, but he still denies them," She wondered what the entire experience was for him to try and ignore it. "Perhaps he believed them at first, but then tried to find answers, and everything he saw proved false?"

She'd been around bookshops and the library enough to know not all stories were true; some could be elaborated on while others were simply made up to take advantage. This wasn't like home when there was only word of mouth to pass on stories, people could afford to make them up. "That would certainly make a person doubt their experiences."