Ayl watched the girl carefully until she was done speaking. Once she was, his posture relaxed a bit and he laid back in his chair once again, regaining his nonchalant demeanor in full force. He still wasn't sure about this person, but she didn't seem inherently evil in his eye. Not yet, anyway. "So you came over to ask me, a complete stranger, how I met your friend? Wouldn't asking her directly be a more reliable source of info?" he asked, accompanying it with a smirk. "I met her the same way everyone meets in this city, the only time anyone's out in the open to be seen in the first place. While fighting demons. Not exactly much else to bring people together now; Safe havens like this one only showed up because people learned who they could trust, through combat. You watch somebodies back, they're not likely to turn on you. Same goes for me and Sam."<br/><br/>He went about the latter half of his speech in an almost lecturing manner, though it was somewhat unintentional, more of a force of habit than anything. Ayl was one of the Hunters who had been around the longest; His abilities were unmatched by anyone he knew, and newbie Hunters were often pointed in his direction for guidance in harnessing their new-found abilities. The lack of challenge made him relatively lax in the day-to-day, but when meeting people for the first time, his eye was nothing less than scrutinizing. He knew too many Hunters who had fallen from letting their guards down, especially now that the Silencers were around, and it was against his nature to fully trust somebody just after meeting them, no matter how believable their words were.