Blacktail Deer Plateau the shadows go like ghosts across your road

Mordecai had a strange way of appeasing Tonravik with his words. She had no use for them, but had no qualms with hearing him utilize his repertoire to agree with her in his way (so she believed). Tonravik nodded at his words, darkly enjoying that he agreed. It was unfortunate, of course. The woman doubted they could last too long with a leader as irrational as Tuwawi; the woman had doused herself in kerosene and was a flame that would burn herself to death. It was a shame. Tonravik might have tried to aid her had she known who the woman was to her mother; Siku had some semblance of affection to the girl. But Tonravik had never even heard her name, only that she was referred to as a "flame".

Tonravik shrugged at his words; she could not empathize. When the going got tough, she was one to always get tougher. Plenty had not worked out for her. The Glacier had not worked as she had hoped it would, her attempt to begin Tartok here once had been foiled due to a war starting in the West and she herself being called upon by her mother. Life was rough; one needed to be rough themselves to punch back. She did not roll with the punches.

"I will lead." She stated to his query. There was no room to doubt her, there. It was clear she could not follow. "You are welcome to follow. Perhaps lead," she invites, and one might think Tonravik to be flirting, but she only said what she thought she saw. A leader there. In the latest invitation was the proclaimed thought: you are not meant to follow, either. Tonravik takes some steps backward, blinking the rain away. She had duties to attend to, now. And so she nods in goodbye, knowing as she had found him, he might be able to find her, before trotting off. She had nothing left to say, and her lack of enjoyment for talking at all had taken its toll as she decided it was time to go. The woman who was typically observant had not been able to see his wounds, and the scent of them she could not find due to her own changing musk which distracted her.