"Nice to meet you, paranoid," she said with a smile. "I know someone else who would probably have the same line of thinking." Scott was also paranoid and probably wouldn't be happy about people wandering off on their own in a place they weren't native to. Nah, there was no probably about it. He'd hate the idea. "Maybe you've got a point. I'm just..." how to phrase it without raising too many questions? "Better at taking care of myself alone than I may look."

She tilted her head at his last comment and quirked an eyebrow. "What's your own home city like?"