Silvertip Mountain A home built of stone.

Her reaction should have been expected, but it was not. Njal did not flinch away from her hulking figure as she took on the characteristics of a woman scorned - a Kesuk scorned, had he known more about her ilk - but he did lower his posture considerably, as he was instinctually driven to do so. Jinx lashed him with her tongue, and brought about a proper threat to him now, one which had been bubbling in the back of his mind. Flavouring the end of the encounter.

Perhaps he would go to visit the Vale wolves and get the story straightened out. First he would need to find Fox and finish the duty she had granted him; perhaps enlighten her to Jinx's odd behaviour upon the mountain. As Jinx named him a traitor he raised himself up, bristling with a silent indignation - and yet, said nothing. "Do not give me a reason to bring this to Fox, Njal." She chided him, filled with a heated irritation that Njal was eager to avoid.

He turned then and began to evacuate the area. Not a word, not a single betrayal of his thoughts or feelings - although that itself was an expression. Many things now sat within his mind and he needed to return to the creek promptly. The mountain could be abandoned to Jinx, for now.

[Exit Njal]