His choice of words could have very well caused another to bristle and to take offense. But the tones behind them told Rhae of nothing but pure curiosity and wonder. For it was quite true- the large female was indeed a loner, and why would any loner care about any pack wolf? But Rhae was not as most other wolves, and she knew this, though it wasn't something she went around blatantly announcing. Instead, she preferring to express and show herself through her actions instead of words. Perhaps that was where Cae had gotten his lack of speech from, his Mother herself though the thought had never come to her until just now. It was an interesting thing, the way others always seemed to bring new and interesting thoughts to mind. Especially the other lain out just before her.

Tilting her large skull in consideration of her answer, she decided blunt honesty would be best with this stranger. "Rhae. Who would you be?" He had not told her why he was upset, but the creme and chocolate marked wolf hoped that in time perhaps he would tell her. They were strangers of course, and perhaps he did not trust easily. But she would do her best to show him she was genuine and honest in her words, her teal gaze finding his own so unique. A deep molten gold they were, fading to a different sort of blue compared to her around the pupil. Dark and fathomless, like the deep sea on a particularly overcast day. Her own were of the sea, but on a day most bright and warm, giving the water its greenish hue of teal, when one could easily peer within the depths and discover the wonders otherwise unknown.

His eyes hid things, and Rhae wondered if there was malice within those depths. His scent held no illwill within it, and the loner was one to trust her intstincts. She was a loner for a reason, after all. And because she had asked and he had not given, she finds herself once more asking. "What ails you so, if you would tell a simple commoner." For indeed that was all she was, a simple wolf, seeking simple answers to simple questions. Such was the way of a more than simple loner.