What? How could he have heard her?! She made no sounds that she herself could have heard, except the tiny hiss, and her senses were far more acute than the Sky People. She jumped from her branch to the floor of the forest, drawing her knife in a fluid motion as she did so.
Her ears were flat back against her head, bearing her teeth, growling deep in her throat as she took a careful sideways step towards him, her tail flicked, angrily. Was this one of the creatures she had been warned about?
"What are you doing here?" she hissed. "And what do you speak to the tree?"