He wants to know where she's from.

"Genosha," she says dryly.

And is Genosha (he adds an N sound at the end of it) [angry mob words]?

"I still don't know those words."

Somebody from back in his town yells and he yells back and they have a brief shouted conversation and he glares at her and brandishes his sword but goes back to his town.

She keeps walking. And running, when out of sight of towns. Also when out of sight of towns, she frequently cleans some water and drinks it. Because running. In a desert.

...Lion people. What the hell. Lion people don't exist. That's--she would have heard of that. Unless someone's been mucking around with unethical bloodworking? ...She's not going to accuse someone of being the result of unethical bloodworking to their face.

They talk to each other in a language that sounds completely different from the one the humans spoke. They don't attempt to talk to her. They do prowl around her and attempt to encircle.

If they don't attempt to talk to her, she's going to keep walking, and if one attempts to get in her way, she's going to stop, fold her arms and give them a very pointed look.

The lioness-person smiles. Toothily. She doesn't get out of the way.

Illia attempts to go around her.

She steps into her path. Claws come out. The lioness-person makes a noise that might mean "tut tut".

Illia bodily picks her up, takes a few steps forward, puts her down behind her, and keeps walking. Claws become relevant partway through this sequence of events. She heals the first scratch and does not permit further ones.

The lioness person yells when she sees that and now the lion people are really interested in her and all following her.

They can follow her all they like, as long as they don't attempt to physically interfere with her.

One of them croaks out a few words that sound like the humans' language, but they are not words she has learned.

If they appear to be talking to her, she turns around and makes an apologetic gesture of incomprehension.

The lion-person (he's got half a mane in and a lot of scars) continues trying human language words.

If he says a word of Leraal she remembers she will totally understand it. Otherwise she is willing to play the pointing-and-naming-things game.

His accent's not very good; some of those might be words she remembers and some might not. When the conversation lapses into pointing and naming they use their own language instead of the humans' one.

She expected that! Well, she can hardly fault his accent; hers isn't great either.

Once the very basics (affirmative and negative, "to be") are established: They are sheha, they say. She's a kyis. Kyis don't do - they mime the face scratching thing and the healing. ??? (This last is not verbal.)

She's not from around here. She was very surprised when the person she was talking to screamed when she--she repeats the action, snapping her fingers and making a spark.

The lion people are very impressed with the spark.