It was in the moment that Oded stood that the curious woman remembered herself. Her body practically shrinking under his gaze. Bare feet stumbling over each other as she took a step backwards, then another. Putting a little space between the two. He had seemed kind, but she wasn't sure. There was still so many questions she needed answering.
She was polite enough to answer one of his first though. "I..Esmeralda. But I like Red, Red's okay.." Her voice sounded unsure, quiet as the breeze. As soft and tender as the woman before him. In this form she was just as strong as her wolf, but without those teeth she didn't believe she had any attack capabilities. No, this was the woman who didn't see the bad in people. Who'd always been so trusting and sweet that she seemed to fall into every bad situation in a five mile block.
Her confused features only altered slightly at his next words. Tilting her pretty face slightly to the side as she did as a wolf. The lines were more blurred with her than most shifters. "I don't have any money," she explained when he told her he'd need compensation. Assuming that was what he meant. Because what else would he be after from her? "I know you didn't hurt me, but.." He'd definitely done something. Perhaps not to her. That could have been the wrong phrasing. But something had happened.