Quietly, Aeylisia let her anger simmer beneath the surface, frowning into the utter darkness the shelter of her arms provided for her face, taking yet another deep breath in The hope that she would be able to calm her irritation. Her mother had always chided her on having quite the temper, Something she had inherited from her father alongside stubbornness worthy of a wild ass. As she breathed, she tried contemplating thoughts other than the destruction of her forest and the faults of the human race, focusing on something that Shade had said that she had not quite understood.

Sarcasm.

The word was alien to her, something that the elf had never heard before. It didn't belong to any of the vocabulary she had learned from her parents, nor any of the stories she had read or heard over the years. To her, the word was hollow, meaningless. She wondered if she dared ask for an explanation...

Before she could consider the matter much longer, Shade was wrapping her leg in a proper bandage and advising her not to attempt walking. Skipping over the waspish response that she had no intention of walking that night that was her first reaction, Aeylisia carefully maneuvered herself into an upright position, sitting back against her tree once more, avoiding jostling her freshly bandaged leg. She studied the white cloth for several seconds before she glanced up at Shade's back. She resisted the instinctive reaction to look away when the young man glanced in her direction, keeping her violet eyes focused on him as he explained his intention of securing the corpse of the manticore. She nodded her head once before her eyebrows drew together with a look of annoyance as he continued his statement with a question. "I can start a fire just fine by myself." She snapped, finally looking away with a soft snort. Almost in the same motion, the elf began collecting nearby stones and sticks, piling the wood together in one spot and beginning to create a ring with the stones. After several seconds of angry silence, purposefully hitting rocks against one another and snapping a few sticks, Aeylisia slowed to a stop and  finally whispered in a soft voice, "Thank you for helping with my leg." She cast one quick look from beneath her eyelashes up at the human before she returned to her task, crawling forward on hands and knees to reach A few scattered branches and purposefully turning her back on Shade.