Lotte gave a thoughtful nod, trying to be relieved about that. Something about that disappointed her, but she shoved it aside. Ella had heard his voice now too - it should have been proof enough, aside from his word that he hadn't been the one to hurt her. She looked at him, keeping eye-contact for a moment before her eyes fell to her pants' leg.
“I knew before the first transformation about the fables,” said Lotte carefully. “So, I at least didn’t have a shock by that – but I’d been told to keep an eye out in case…” She trailed off, it not needing an explanation. She kept her eyes down, going on. “I’m sorry if I was – panicked afterwards. I didn’t know what you’d do and – really, it took me awhile to realize what you had done.” She looked up, biting her lip. “If you’d said something then after you helped me out of there, I’d have kept quiet.” Mostly. The building deserved to know that there was an insane man in the catacombs.