Ariadne appreciated the stranger's gentle approach, but she'd smelled him coming and wasn't startled. Pleased, yes. He seemed polite. But not surprised.

She lifted her head, her hair falling away from her face, revealing a gentle smile, with gray eyes shimmering like silver coins in a fountain. "If you mean the Serenity Garden," she said--she hated that name and needed a better one, but for now it would have to do--"...then yes. I guess it is."

With a quick little shift in her weight, she swung herself up into a sitting position, tucking her feet underneath her. A much better way to look at him.

A Human, from the smell of him. With what looked like a kind face and nice eyes.

She immediately decided she liked him.