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Elspeths wolf's body language was not unnoticed. Matt looked at the animal, his head tilted to the side slightly, before looking back at his own. He rested his hand on his wolf's head. Leave for a little bit. The wolf looked up at her best friend, then looked back down, almost sulking. Don't look at me like that! I'm trying to make a new friend here! And her wolf doesn't seem to like you here. The wolf narrowed her eyes at Matt.

You can come back in a little bit. But right now, please? The wolf blinked once, then got up slowly and walked off. He turned back to the girl, wondering if this time would be any different than the times he had tried to warm up to her before. But she had never seemed to aknowledge Matt's existence before.

"Hi..."

Matt's thoughts froze. As did his entire body. Was that... Did Eslpeth just... Matt slowly turned his head towards the girl, and he smiled, hiding his shock easily. "Hey." He said simply, tilting his head slightly again. Honestly, he had never expected this. Elspeth had actually said something to him. ... And he had no idea what to say back.

C'mon... you didn't read all those psychology books for nothing! Matt cursed himself. Lets see... what do I know about Elspeth? She's cold. Blunt. Unkind to everybody. ... Except the wolf. Maybe her nature is caring after all, hidden under the pain of torture? Possibly... Or maybe she feels a need to comfort him because they share DNA... What's her color? ... I don't know. Number? ... Another blank. Maybe his profiling skills weren't all that great after all.

Whatever. Skip. Next area... She sighed lightly a few moments ago. Possibly sadness. Maybe anger... but her eys didn't show anger. Maybe... acceptance? No... no... that was stupid. Sadness or dissapointment. Definatly. Her eyes were slightly wide. She seemed to be looking around at things. Even me at one point. But not really AT me... just at somthing. It was weird. Does she have a vision problem? Possibly. Or maybe it's just bright out here. But then her eyes wouldn't be wide... All of this and more went through his head in less than a second. Reading all that material payed off. So with all of that in mind... what to say to her?

"Um... forgive me if I'm being blunt." He said slowly, seconds after his initial 'Hey'. "But... you seem a little troubled. Is something wrong?" He looked at hr eyes in particular.