She looked up at him, eyes flashing red for a moment before she downed another mouthful of raw coffee. Her hands stopped trembling and her eyes turned to a more natural black. "Coffee," she said slowly, still gripping the can tightly. "Needed that." She could feel sanity slowly returning, but she still didn't have a firm grasp of it yet.
Her eyes rose to the man--and unlike most people in her squad, there was no question that he was a man. And he certainly wasn't another soldier, or even... Borogravian. It was pretty safe for her to say that. "Are you an elf?" She'd heard elves could be pretty nasty.