Diana stared at the kitten intently, just barely managing to keep her face neutral, holding back a smirk, at the kitten's obvious fear. Normally she'd worry about pushing it too far, people didn't normally want to fight her if they were utterly terrified of her after all, but she didn't have much interest in fighting something so adorable and incompetent. Beating her wouldn't prove anything, and it didn't seem like she'd even get a particularly entertaining fight out of it either. It seemed like it'd be short and sad, much like their race, so chasing her off seemed like the way to go here. But then the kitten got a particular look in her eyes, somewhat hidden behind that fear, and Diana was suddenly curious.

Once the kitten slipped out of her grip, she couldn't hold back her grin anymore. The girl was certainly harder to spot, but given she was just in Diana's face and she had enhanced reflexes among other things right now, she was able to track her movements. That said, she made no effort to dodge her attack what so ever. She was curious to see what this little kitten could do. Instead, she simply decided to prepare her own attack. The moment she felt even the slightest brush against her leg, she used the other leg to try to kick the kitten in the side of the jaw. She had no idea how this mage's power worked, but she was able to touch the mage before. This seemed like the obvious time to try something.

Unfortunately, the attack was pretty much what she would expect from a tiny little kitten trying to growl: nothing more than a squeak that just made you want to pat the kitten on the head more. She winced slightly and her expression flattened as she felt a light trickle of blood run down her leg. It probably wouldn't even take two minutes for that to heal up. Even after a few seconds she could feel the trickle of blood start slowing down.

"What are you doing?" she folded her arms and raised an eyebrow.

That actually hit? Given she said her power was basically phasing through things she wasn't expecting that to do much of anything. It was more of a test to see if she could hit her while she was attacking. Was that an unavoidable side-effect of this kitten's power? It'd make sense. It'd be hard to attack anything if she were going right through it. Good information to file away for later, assuming there weren't any other shenanigans going on. She'd have to run more tests, but this was at least a good start. The words however, just made her sigh and shake her head.

"The way you're going about it sure as hell makes it seem like a joke," her expression flattened again. "Just because a kitten can draw blood with its claws doesn't make it an actual threat. If you have something to prove you have to show that you really mean it. Something like that? Complete child's play. It doesn't seem like you're serious at all. So if you want to prove something next time why don't you," she motioned towards her face, "aim for my eyes?"

The healing capabilities of her power was one of the things she researched first. They could mean the difference between life and death, so it was important to know exactly what they could do. A little needle like that wasn't going to be able to cause any lasting damage to her, even if it were poisoned which didn't seem to be the case here anyway, regardless of where she hit. She'd severed peoples' spinal cords while they were sleeping and they got up in the morning like nothing happened. It even got rid of any scarring, no matter how long those scars were there. She'd caused precise wounds severe enough to cause permanent brain damage, but everyone she tried it on and healed after didn't even seem to notice. The only side effect that she saw was that they were all unusually hungry and tired the next day, something that she was very familiar with. Likely from causing the body to go into overdrive and use all the resources it could get really quickly.

Of course she wasn't going to tell this little kitten any of that. This was a test of guts and knowing that she would barely even be hurt by that diminished it.