[He's just looking at her with a flat, seemingly unconvinced expression. Given what he's experienced and seen of how she's handled things so far along with her appearance he's skeptical. But he also knows he's only going off first impressions.]

It's not the blood, but what I'll do after they're killed. Ever watch a butcher or a cook prepare meat?

I'm going to the forests to help with culling the animals, but I will also be processing them for resources.

[Of course he doesn't have to do this today and can just go tomorrow. He may or may not still be trying to shake off Maribelle, but if she was still insistent he could try and appease her with her company another way while being in town... Well would staying in town be any better or would being out in the forests actually be safer...]