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The woman did not speak any further, and instead regarded Njal with quite a hostile expression; he wondered if she would lash out, but when Xi only stood and moved to depart, the man gave a small sigh. He watched her go with his body rigid. The woman's figure fell away among the surroundings, and soon enough was only a shifting boulder on the horizon. Njal calmed considerably with the situation diffused, and turned to regard his wife. Tuwawi was radiating anger and he, with a careful nudge of his nose against her cheek, tried to quietly soothe her. There was nothing much else for him to do now that the arrangement had been broken, and the woman banished.