[Her smile doesn't fade but the playfulness doesn't throw her off of the information he's given her, even if it isn't much. She has a feeling Laine is the kind of guy who knows he's charming and it isn't going to make her forget that whole "treason" bit. This isn't her jurisdiction and she isn't about to try and step into the politics of a world that isn't her own, but that doesn't mean she doesn't want to know if her traveling companion is the kind of guy she can trust not to stab her in the back. Before she can try for another more direct question, the alien chirps again just as movement in the thick trees to their left makes itself known.
She has enough time to throw a shield up in front of them both before something propels itself out of the bushes and slashes at them, each of it's unnaturally long limbs lined with blades that make it appear less like a creature inhabiting the planet, and more like something out of a bad scifi movie.]
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She has enough time to throw a shield up in front of them both before something propels itself out of the bushes and slashes at them, each of it's unnaturally long limbs lined with blades that make it appear less like a creature inhabiting the planet, and more like something out of a bad scifi movie.]
Stay behind me!