Continuing to watch the human male with apprehension, she watched as he seemed to realize who, or what, she was, indicating to her that he really hadn't been trying to harm her since he didn't appear to have realized who she was until that moment. However, that didn't mean he wouldn't want to hurt her, now that he did know. Most humans nowadays were after her, if they did believe in her in the first place. Those who believed who were fighting to destroy the forest believed that if they could find her and kill her, it was be a piece of cake to overtake the forest as they pleased, like they had with all the others. Which they wouldn't be wrong in that assumption. With her dead, the forest wouldn't just become another ordinary forest, but it would begin to die with or without the human's help. Though it would take many years for such a large forest to die on its own without her, decades, possible a half a century or two for it to completely die out without it'd guardian.<br/><br/>Either way, without her around the forest would be easy to do as the humans wanted with it. Which is why she was more than apprehensive and wary of the human male standing before her right now. Though as he continued to assure her he genuinely meant no harm, and upon further inspection Maeve could see that he truly didn't seem the type to be ready for any sort of fight at all. He hadn't any weapons on him, nor did he appear to have much muscle mass to him. She had remained silent for a while as she just watched him though one of his comments urging her to finally speak. "It wont be destroyed" she stated strongly with a determined voice "I wont let that happen-" she spoke stubbornly, though was cut off by a rough sounding cough, taking a step further back away from him as she covered her mouth, her chest clenching at the burning sensation of pain, as though the toxic chemicals that had been sprayed and gassed on the perimeter trees and plants of the forest were inside her own body.