While watching this man walk through the forest, Maria began to notice a stench. It was foul beyond anything she had smelt before. She quickly keyed into this new stimuli, and suddenly it became obvious, the breathing, circling her. The moment she noticed this she knew she as going to have to fight. Maria spun around, flipped off the branch towards the ground below, and threw two kunai at the creature during her decent. Landing on the ground, she took an offensive stance, staff in hand, ready to fight this new threat. [i]I will have to be more careful and aware from now on,[/i] though Maria. She began to speak, addressing the man who was a few feet away, "I mean no harm unless you mean harm. We must fight to survive here. Land of Evil this is."