The way Clio pauses and ducks her head, sheepish, is a very unfoxlike gesture. She makes a note to remember how to sneak better - it's been a while since she's shapeshifted and it'd taken her an hour in crow form before she could even get airborne (it'd been embarrassing, flapping around Lea's backyard).

She can understand him and appreciates his reaction, but she can't respond verbally and there's a moment of indecision as she tosses up whether she wants to be people shaped. The answer is kind of 'not really', but she'd feel guilty if she kept playing as a real fox when she distinctly isn't. Eventually she settles on shifting back to human, giving a soft yip before backing up and changing.

It's a quick process, because it's magic, not physical and it also means she gets to keep her clothes (leggings, a loose hoodie and boots). So rather suddenly there is a smiling person in the place of a fox.

"Sorry." For intruding. And a potential apology in case she freaked him out.