04-09-2018, 11:41 PM
Before he even saw her or even noticed the movement among the trees it was the stirrings of consciousness that alerted him to her presence. At the edges of his mental sensing he could feel her, no thoughts or no emotions for spying was rude. This he knew somehow from somewhere long past where he was trained in etiquette by something or someone... or maybe he just knew automatically. The past was out of reach but the present was what he should focus on now. The star stag knew she was near and he brought his mental net in, closing off the flow of information around him so that he could better focus on what he was sure would be an interaction to come. Anticipation colored him, this would be the first real time he would be able to speak with one of the creatures here and learn all that he could.
He simply used his power, what caused that third eye to glow with its white light, to detect and sense roughly where she was. His ears swiveled around towards her when he could hear the hooves on stone which was followed slowly by his head. First he stared impassively at what he could make out in the darkness but then a smile showed on his face, it mirrored the emotion he allowed to flow towards her. He could form no words of mouth so instead he made due with what he could with his mind. The feeling he sent was a wave of warmth and welcome. There were no words with the feeling but there was an implied greeting there. In his way he was saying "hello" in a manner that might be considered abnormal to those of this world but to him was a normal as breathing. Emotions and feelings in place of words, he knew without knowing that it was how it had always been with him.
He hoped his warm welcome was enough to bring her off of her guard for he wanted no trouble. The way she had her head dropped slightly, those horns prone warranted a question in and of itself... He sent an image of her charging him with those horns coupled with a feeling of faint curiosity and inquiry. Did she have intentions to harm him? Or was it purely defensive as he envisioned?