Blacktail Deer Plateau stardust

A low chuff rings softly through the air, but to Raid, the sound is sharp, too sharp and she glances upwards immediately. Aditya. As far as the girl can remember, she hasn't really 'met' him - she knows who he is, nonetheless. Information obtained from observations and careless eavesdropping. Still, despite this vague familiarity, his presence stirs at some sort of hidden fear within her and she edges away almost instinctively. It's something of a familiar feeling now - a burning fear which rises whenever a male comes near her. Raid wonders detachedly if it had something to do with her amnesia. Quickly, she puts aside a mental note to talk to someone about it. Maybe...no, she isn't close enough with any of them yet. She didn't trust them.

"Yeah," Raid says, a shadow of a smile flitting briefly over her features as she glances at him. "You could say that." She isn't sure what to say next, so she doesn't speak. It's not like she has anything against him in particular (just some sort of weird fear for his gender) but there is nothing else to say and Raid is a firm believer of not speaking unless necessary. The world, she thinks, is filled with too many people who speak but never say and others who hear but never listen. Too many useless words, thrown carelessly and mindlessly until they hold no more meaning. She loathes that, and so stays silent. She does not feel obliged to carry on a conversation, after all, he is the one who joins her and not the other way around. If he wishes to speak, however, Raid will not object. After all, it's not like she doesn't want to talk to him, but rather, unless he has something to say, silence seems more appropriate than stupid small talk. God, how she hates small talk.