Di tensed and for a moment imagined him continuing to roll forward in her direction until she became nothing more than a green smear on the sidewalk.

She had never been the most technologically minded troll. It wasn't that she disliked technology--no, definitely not. She saw its usefulness, admired those who understood it, and had tried to do so herself but something about it always eluded her. Maybe she just preferred to keep her own life simple. Coming across what seemed like a machine that was as fully sentient as her just made it all the more boggling.

Di had fought creatures bigger than this guy before, and infinitely more hostile but somehow she felt more nervous in his presence than she had when fighting against the wild beasts of Alternia and highbloods.

"Magdal. And yours?"