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When the other senshi still seemed interested, Cybele held her arm up for a little longer so she could examine it.

"You're right," she said, holding still. "I suppose it's more of a question of whether it's territorial dangerous or out-of-control dangerous, like something fueled by Chaos or rabies." Most youma weren't too strong, and they'd run sometimes, but given half a chance it seemed like they were always on the offensive, always hunting for something in the same way the agents were. They sometimes looked like animals, but they never acted like them.

The owl didn't really act like either. What sort of thing would risk showing up to give a quick scratch and then run away again? It was truly gone, too. Cybele didn't see any more hints of movement in the treetops. "You've heard of it attacking others?" Now, that was concerning. "Hmm. Have you seen it outside of these woods? Something seems off about this whole place."

She was distracted by an odd feeling in her arm and all the tension melting out of her shoulders. "It will be all right," she said with a sudden grin. "It's nothing I can't keep an eye on." Cybele looked down just in time to see the wounds fading as she watched. She giggled. "It tingles!"

The strange, no, the magical burst of confidence only lasted for about as long as it took for the scratches on her arm to seal over, but she'd been chewing it over for long enough at that point that it didn't seem like the bird was a huge threat.

"All that points to it being a bit more logical," she said. "If it was following you, and now me. We were tracking it. Looks like it noticed." None of that meant it was natural. None of that meant that she trusted it, but it wasn't a high priority of dangerous when the streets were still crawling with the Negaverse.

"And you have a point. If it's chasing you around, it's most likely not chasing anyone else around." Cybele didn't quite have the other girl's confidence about that being a long term solution. Once she left, the owl would likely come after anyone else who made their way into these woods, but as long as it was just watching them, or even following them, it would probably be all right.

"I'll check back tomorrow, but I think I'm going to move on for tonight," she said. As an Eternal, she tried to get in a few youma per hunt if she could, but first she gave the other girl a smile. "It was nice to meet you, Adorea."