She was tied to a tree, again — the book knows it is repeating the Red Boy setup and repeats it on purpose, because the master never learns this particular lesson and the book is honest about that — a beautiful woman bound in the forest, crying that bandits had killed her family and left her to die, begging the passing monks to save her.
said what he always says. It's a demon. Look at her. Nobody ties a woman to a tree in the middle of nowhere and leaves her alive and talking. It's bait, master, it's the same bait as the boy in the tree, and you fell for that one too.
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