Aelfric couldn't help but be impressed with the young girl. She was confident, and never batted an eyelash about being confronted by him. He decided she must be from the East, where the nobility was not nearly so prominent as in Dalrian society. He had even heard tell that some Turizi cities were ruled by an council of merchants of all people. As if merchants knew how to rule anything but a purse. After giving some idle thought to pressing the issue, Aelfric decided the girl had a point.. "Of course, how rude of me. I never introduced myself, and here I am making demands. My name is Baron Aelfric. I'm a jumped up knight turned minor noble, and by the grace of the good King Geralt-and some rather fuzzy territorial boundaries-I am the owner of this part of the forest, and by extension these ruins. As such, the duty of investigating the recent discovery falls to me."
The big man shifted himself into a more comfortable, less aggressive stance. He did, without even thinking about it, rest his hand on the hilt of his sword though. It wasn't meant to be a threat, it just came naturally to him. He scratched at his beard as he watched the young woman retrieve the knife and loot the corpses. Despite his own confidence and generally easy-going manner, Aelfric was very cautious about this young woman. In his experience, there were very few types of people who were so comfortable around corpses. Veteran soldiers, naturally, people who were exposed to death at a young age, and experienced killers. Soldiers (good soldiers at least), only killed when necessary, which Aelfric was willing to admit it likely was in her case. They also weren't usually averse to looting the dead, and in fact it was an expected perk of being the victor. Still, Anthea didn't exactly look like a soldier to him. She might be a refugee of some sort, a resident of some war torn land. That would explain her familiarity with death, and such unfortunates were certainly willing to loot battlefields in order to survive. Still, such people weren't always quite so willing to make corpses themselves as she was.
That, of course, left the most likely possibility as her being an experienced "unprofessional" killer. Possibly herself a bandit of some sort. Aelfric didn't want to jump to conclusions, but he considered it his duty to keep his lands and the people living in them safe from any possible aggressors. Thus he leaned forward, and asked a bit more insistently, "Now, I've introduced myself. I think perhaps you should do the same."