Emberwood retracing his steps over and over

She can't help the small, dorky chuckle at his insinuation that she didn't need to apologize, like that was suposed to be something she didn't know. Oh, she knew, but it could hardly be helped. Literally, any time she ever did anything even slightly wrong, the first word to fall from her lips would be sorry, and it was pretty habitual at this point, like some sort of self-redeeming knee-jerk reaction. Her brain seemed to think if she immediately covered up her social floundering with a sorry afterwards, all awkwardness and inappropriateness could be forgiven, and she severely doubted this would ever change, not unless she could somehow FINALLY hammer it into her head that it was OKAY to not be good at the whole "talking" thing.

So, yeah, she laughed, laughed because it was one of those quirks/faults of hers that had pretty much become an inside joke for herself. Psh, Sybil, not saying sorry, lol. Cool story bro.

Then she perked her ears to his next comment, and was genuinely a little surpirsed. She'd immediately assumed he meant that as in he was somehow ashamed of his name, and she couldn't begin to fathom why. Wintersbane—it just sounded so cool and badass. Who wouldn't want to introduce themselves with a name like that?

"Why? Your name's freakin' cool. I wish mine sounded that cool." She wrinkled her muzzle. 

Sybil. Syyybil. Nope. it kinda sounded like a toddler trying to say "civil", or "symbol". Not very badass at all. Not to mention hearing her own name just reminded her of all the times someone had said it angrily, or tauntingly; such things like that had a tendency to sap the beauty out of a word, if there had ever been any to start with. 

Then, as the soon came to a crossroads and her companion put his nose to a trail, she was suddenly reminded of what they were doing and forcibly lowered her own head. "Oh, yeah, I should probably be quiet," came her voice in a much more hushed tone. Didn't want to ruin this thing before it even started by just making useless chit-chat about someone's name... stupid...

Additionally, when she realized she also wasn't doing anything and Wintersbane was doing all the work, she kinda felt bad and decided to also put her nose to the trail. Not that two wolves needed to be tracking the same thing... but hey... it made her feel... not useless... even if she was still pretty much just following his lead.