Toothless Damsel In Distress

"Can beasts lie to me or not?" was the question going through Seth's mind as he stared at the tiger, but then again, he doubted it could lie to him.

Beasts were instinctually submissive to other beasts which were clearly superior to them, and there was no way a rank 6 beast would ignore the presence of a rank 7, 8, and 9 beasts to boast itself the strongest, but then again if he went by this logic, wasn't he implying that in this entire forest, he had killed the only rank 9 beast and that there were no rank 7 or 8 beasts.

Feeling confused and unable to arrive at a reasonable answer, Seth asked the beast for directions to the nearest human settlement, and after listening to several of its roars, he decide to mount it and send it speeding off toward the massive settlement it had mentioned