While the stereotype of shadowlings being invariably malicious may have been proved wrong with Red, they seemed just as perceptive as the rumors claimed. Faun looked to them sharply, her eyes wide as they almost immediately guessed the cause behind her little speech impediment. For a moment, though her lips were parted, she said nothing, both stunned and trying very carefully to pick her next words. Her bestial form was curse enough, to have to live like that without being able to tell anybody or beg for help had been torture of an entirely different sort. Red's offer of help almost seemed too good to be true, and for a moment she hesitated to take it. If the Doctor learned she had been trying to escape his geas, it surely wouldn't end well for her.<br/><br/>But if she turned it down...then what? Back to her master, back to living like a wretched beast, giving up the last shred of humanity she had to hold onto. She could stay with the evil she knew, or take the risk and make a bid for freedom.<br/><br/><b>"I...would appreciate that,"</b>she said finally, guarded but unable to conceal the glimmer of hope in her tone.<br/><br/>Her attention was pulled away from the shadowling as their wolf escort suddenly paused, surveying the terrain around them before continuing on. She had gone on alert when he did, ears flicking forward to catch any stray sounds that might give away someone creeping through the trees, but where she heard nothing out of the ordinary, she allowed herself to relax, looking over to Red once more as they wondered aloud how she had drawn Gray's notice. To that, she could only shrug.<b>"Truth be told, I'm not sure, although the ogres were making plenty of noise on their own--maybe that's what got his attention."</b>She chuckled quietly, absentmindedly tugging at one of her tufted ears.<b>"You'd think I'd have more of an affinity with goats and deer than anything else, not wolves." </b>She wasn't entirely sure exactly what creatures the Doctor had used to make her into what she was now, but the hooves and horns suggested he had preferred herbivores.