She hears the voice before she becomes aware of somebody stepping out from the trees and she starts rather visibly. Which is perhaps the right kind of reaction to somebody melting out of the shadows but for her it's a little more.
He'd snuck up on her? True, the heavy rain and the crinkling racket of her tarp had made listening harder but she'd been burning tin all the same. How had... who-?
She settles, if still a little on edge and makes a note of this man. For now, better to come across unassuming. Not hard to do. She's just a tiny girl who got separated from the group and wandered off in the rain.
"Oh... right." She tugs her improvised cloak a little tighter around herself though her eyes never waver beneath it. "I suppose I did get a little turned around. Do you... know the way back to the group?"
She does, of course, but what he says should reveal his intentions well enough.
NGL this is kind of some dream CR right here
He'd snuck up on her? True, the heavy rain and the crinkling racket of her tarp had made listening harder but she'd been burning tin all the same. How had... who-?
She settles, if still a little on edge and makes a note of this man. For now, better to come across unassuming. Not hard to do. She's just a tiny girl who got separated from the group and wandered off in the rain.
"Oh... right." She tugs her improvised cloak a little tighter around herself though her eyes never waver beneath it. "I suppose I did get a little turned around. Do you... know the way back to the group?"
She does, of course, but what he says should reveal his intentions well enough.