Marissa evidently became more relaxed when she realised that the other female was alone. Okay, she hadn't straight up run into another territory. She wasn't [i]that[/i] incompetent. She straightened up more, and adopted a more formal position. 

"Yeah, I'm alone as well..." guess she always had been. Well, ever since her previous pack completely fell apart due to internal strife and politics, and tainted her view of working with other people. But Aurora seemed different, at least - she wasn't immediately trying to assert her authority over her. Guess that was a plus point - but how long would her acting nice last, before competing for the top position and making everything fall apart again?

She sighed inwardly. It was one wolf. One female. A nice female. Things only really got complicated when Males were involved. "I'm Marissa," she said, following Aurora to the cub.

Only really got complicated when Males were involved. Marissa witnessed Aurora's internal debate and uncertainty when she detected the newcomer - if even Marissa could notice him in this rain, it meant that he must be close. Really got complicated when...

"Aurora, I'll go after him. I'm a slow runner, but I'll see what I can do. Just to make sure he isn't dangerous, especially now that we have a young one around." She much rather would have preferred to stay with the cub, but for some reason she was compelled to chase after the male. Why, she had no idea. Marissa had already avoided one potential threat, and here she was jumping into another, and she hoped that she was still making the right choices.