Kala could hear him speak and she knew things were coming to surface.  She kept her eyes directly on him, though she used her perifrial to gauge how far away his tail was from her.  She needed to get out from inside his ring of tail.  His words caught her attention.  He was there when Kalab was attacked.  "If you were there when we entered, then you are no friend.  I think I'd rather take my chances here than wander the woods with you."  She said, her voice sharp as her facial expression lost all signs of 'lost little girl'.  Her eyes had narrowed at this point and she was waiting.<br/><br/>And then she heard the horn in the distance and she didn't think, she simply moved.  Her body dropped quickly into a crouch and she pushed off with her foot, rolling away from Draki and his tail.  In a second's time, she was standing again, a few feet from him.  She wasn't armed yet,  but her fingers were tensed and ready.  she took several steps away from him, trying to keep herself out of reach of his tail.  "I'm not going anywhere with you.  I'll not let myself be bait so you can catch Kalab."  He hadn't said that was what he intended out loud, but gathering from what he had said and the way he was acting, she was pretty sure that's what he intended.<br/><br/>She could tell by the sounds that the hunting party was breaking up. Would the boy come back?  Would he bring others?  She would welcome that more than sitting here with this creature.  It was like trying to dance on thin ice and avoid falling in. She was good at fighting, she had killed countless vampires, but she hadn't gone up against anything else.  She didn't know what this creature was capable of and the vampires she fought didn't have massive tails.  She may be trigger happy, so to speak, but she wasn't stupid.  Rushing into battle in this situation would probably get her killed, or even worse.  She shoved the thoughts of Ellon out of her head, though it was enough to cause a slight shudder to pass through her core.