His reaction amuses her enough to pull out a laugh as she walks along after him. "I don't really give a shit what you did. All I care about is that you have experience hunting in this kind of terrain."

If she's going to learn something from him and they're going to work together to go after larger animals, then she needs to have some kind of trust in him. And that trust starts with finding out something about him that makes her see him as fitting in her "one of us" mentality.