That was just as well, for Handy underestimated just how fascinated people outside the Greenwoods were with the forest, and ate up everything Handy could tell them. ‘What were the deer like? How did they live? Was the forest haunted? Did all that really happen? The trees were how big? You have got to be kidding, was there really an ancient city lost in those woods?’ On and on it went. Handy could probably write a book about what he experienced, fill in the gaps in his knowledge with wild bullshit, and make a small mint for himself, based on the reactions he got. He did have to prove his tale with some of the pitiful deer supplies he still had on his person from his time amongst them. You could hardly blame the griffons’ scepticism.