The corners of his mouth twitched up slightly, in synch with his head tilting, just a touch, towards the fingers on his brow. It wasn't an embarrassing story, far from it. But he'd found that given his standing as a monster hunter it was usually a surprising one.

"Bear. A pack of deep stalkers have nothing on a hungry bear that doesn't want to part with the hurlock corpse it dragged to her cave for dinner. Guess if you focus too much on the strange it's the normal stuff that gets you."