<em>He watched her closely, how she remained calm, how she felt frustrated but didn't let it impair her judgement. It didn't surprise him. He'd been expecting that level of professionalism. What surprised-- and angered him-- was the accusation. It took more than a little of his considerable self-restraint to keep himself from leaping out to demand the truth from her right there and then, who had really commissioned the death of his lover and his framing. He was familiar with the situation. A set up... after all, few of the "normals" involved in the world of the supernatural would give so much as a second thought to a werewolf's opinion, and even the magical community didn't really give a much greater pause before condemning his kind. As it is, his baritone gains a threatening rumble as he keeps moving, giving no sign of the fact that her words have hit him like a silver sledgehammer in the stomach.<br/><br/>"Murder. Desecration. And consumption."<br/><br/>Before he got any farther, the moon revealed itself, catching her off guard, and her appearance triggered a flash of red in his memory. Still, even as memories of a crimson cloak and hood, the smell of innocent blood hanging in the air assault his mind in an incoherent bumrush, his muscles have already sprung into action.<br/><br/>The sable blur of a werewolf leaps out of the woods with an agility and speed that she's sure she's never seen another match. Still, even with the light disorienting her as he darts from side to side to avoid any attacks, some things about him strike her as distinctive. His grace, even in the hybrid form, typically the most clumsy form for any werewolf. His silvery, determined eyes, filled with anger, but not, oddly enough, bloodlust. His maw, shut tight, not a glimpse of sliver of ivory-white, gleaming fangs revealing themselves. <br/><br/>In a final bound, he aimed to pin her down, limb for limb, when, by all rights, he should have been opening that jaw of his to rip into her neck, to snap it like a twig and end her threat. After all, why would he want her alive...?</em>