Moonsong Glacier If we run into red full speed

A little laugh escaped him, more out of surprise than anything. He hadn't meant to castigate, but perhaps he had spoken more strongly than he thought.

"Not that I wouldn't like to know you," he assured her, and then his ears popped to attention at her name: "Simbelmyne — I have heard this name."

He looked at her with new eyes, although he remembered wondering at Chakliux's motives, still. There was a chance that this was a prank meant to embarrass him, although he could not see it going over too poorly. Even so, he hesitated a moment longer before commiting to his trust of the the other man.

"A seal hunter made it known to me," he said, and then he gentled the rakish grin that the memory brought to his face. "He said that you were shy, but that I am gentle."

He had said more than this, of course.