[She turns back, eyes wide. Shoka...she'd fight someone on her behalf? She shouldn't have to do that...

But it does warm her heart to know someone cares, right off the bat.]

I - if it was someone here, I would have left my mark. This I swear. [She says it so seriously, as if this is meant to reassure, and a paw strays up to the marks.]

...Some kind of knife I think. I wasn't looking at that - more at the person doing it.