Explosion

At Akris's words she turned around and looked at him in surprise, at first she didn't cotton on to what he was saying but after a short pause, she understood and now she was standing in silence while looking at him in shock as she slowly asked, " What...What did you say, my lord?" 

"It's her husband who told the authorities about her being a monster," said Akris with a smile in his eyes as he peered down at her. " The woman was foolish enough to believe that her husband of these many years might have fallen in love with her, that was why she naively let him on her little secret, it's just that the man didn't want to be caught by her so he didn't dare to slip up and only mentioned about a monster parading around the territory, after all, if he was to tell that the monster was in his own house, then wouldn't she hurt him in case she got wind of the news?"