She grins back at him when they belatedly reach the point of introductions - monsters first, and then names. Definitely the proper order of what to talk about in a conversation, as far as Mazikeen was concerned. “Mazikeen - or Maze, if you like.” She offers her usual selection of names first and then thinks about her reply to the question of why she was here.
Mazikeen does not believe fear makes her weak but that does not necessarily mean she wants to go bragging about the fact that she’s a little bit afraid of the dark and has come here to face that fear. She’d hate to have to kick Reave for laughing at her.
Then again, they’ve already talked about the end of the world, what was a little bit of fear after that?
She hasn’t yet made up her mind about how to explain why she’s there when she just opens her mouth and starts speaking to see what comes out. “I suppose… I’m here because wanted to prove to myself I don’t need my shapeshifting to make it safely through the woods. I’m on a quest from the Mountain and they took it away until I can complete it - every other time I’ve been here I’ve been a lion or a bear.” Or a fox but that shape does not deserve to be brought up seeing as how that was the one she first wore when she had been attacked.
@[Reave]