Rasputin simply stood around as his spell literally pushed a tree out of the ground. He watched, waited, and he saw just a quick flash of something swiftly evacuating the tree. He only saw a flash of a scaled tail, This detail quite narrowed down the possibilities of what exactly had been up there all this time.

He did not have to ponder it through for long though, as the creature in the trees had wisely decided to show itself after rasputin's show of force. "Hmm... So who are you then?" he asked. Looking her over. At first glance she appeared to be a humanoid, but closer examination showed things to be somewhat off. Her skin had a scalelike texture to it, and horns and a reptillian tail indicated she was quite definitely not a mere human.

"A shapeshifter perhaps?" Rasputin questioned. There were certainly creatures that shifted into humanpod forms for a variety of reasons. Though the only creatures native to this region that fit all of the criteria he could see right now were dragons. Rasputin had reas about the creatures once, though he was quite unfamiliar with the finer details of their capabilities.

"Or.... perhaps a dragon?" He half questioned, half concluded.