" I’ve spent years in this forest, and the village. I know the people there and you'—he looked at her—'are not one of them. None of the village girls are quite as charming as you.' He flashed her a flat smile.
She met it with a look of steel. 'Tell me,' she said, 'do you seek out girls to torment, or do they seek you?'
'The latter,' he said mildly, turning back to search the ferns. 'There’s usually a line of them, but it’s never so long that they end up in the forest.' He gave her a pointed look. "

― S.C. Monson , Badgerblood: Awakening