Echo smiled, but the expression was a little grim. There were always lessons to be learned when your nature wouldn't allow you to fit in. If the other woman's dim memories were true, she came from an otherworldly combat zone. No wonder she was having such difficulty adjusting.

"I'm sorry that I hurt you before. You were in my space, and I thought you were going to bite me or something. When strangers get too close, it makes me get weird. Bit I shouldn't have done what I did."

The words were difficult for the hybrid to say. This woman was clearly Other, and she wasn't a known Other. For all Echo knew, she'd been a god of some sort, at least until some fool had yanked her through a keyhole in the universe. Some things were better left undisturbed.