Sequoia Coast a lady does not start fights

She'd be lying if she had said she had sensed the presence of the brute- as she hadn't. The girl scolded herself upon hearing his words, a bit.. brutal? That wasn't the right word, but he seemed hardened somehow and that was the best word she could think of. Regardless, how could she have missed him? They weren't that close to the sea, her nose shouldn't have been that distracted; maybe it was just her that was distracted.

He approached fearlessly- maybe he didn't really see her as a threat. Aria watched him for a moment before she glanced to her shoulder, bitterly remembering the moment again. She gave a polite smile, her pale eyes glinting with a bit of irritation for the wound. "It's been treated," she replied, her tail giving a bit of a wag as she attempted to return his friendliness. "I am not," she then said, tempted to ask him why he asked. Was this the male who was forming a pack nearby? Had she mistakenly crossed into the territory? Or was he just... around?

"I am Aria," she told him, finding it appropriate to inform him of such.