Sunspire Mountains Meet Cadeau

Talos muttered resentfully under her breath, not quite at a volume to require a reply but enough to at least vent some of her dissatisfaction. It just didn't feel fair that this stranger kept needling Talos about her own family and pack, when the youngster was trying to turn the conversation away from any flaws of her own and onto Cadeau's. Stubborn bitch wouldn't take a hint, dangit. At the very least if this uncomfortable course of conversation was going to continue being insistently pursued Cadeau could turn it into a physical confrontation instead; Talos would in fact have preferred even that to...this. Euargh! But while Talos would be as rude and condescending an overgrown child as her innermost resources could summon, she didn't quite want to be the one to actually start things and escalate into that fight. But Cadeau wasn't cooperatively either backing down or escalating things herself, here—it was so frustrating! Talos screwed up her face and glared sulkily at the other girl. It wasn't until Cadeau started going on about the stupidity of mere kids that Talos's lips began to draw back from her teeth again, however: oh this really was too much.

She started to stiffly take half a step forward, thinking maybe she would be forced to teach this brat a lesson. Before she could quite make up her mind to start that fight after all, however, Cadeau had turned away even while offering to keep looking for Viinturuth. Talos, floored, froze where she stood. She was rather glad Cadeau's head was turned away now and wouldn't catch the younger wolf's facial expression. Aih... you... uh... th-th-thank you? What the hell was she supposed to make of this? You— you weren't supposed to be nice to people who were this rude to you! Talos really didn't know how to cope with this turn of events. Her mouth worked open and shut, but for once could find nothing more to throw after Cadeau as the other girl walked away, leaving Talos smarting and bewildered in her wake, with the younger canine feeling very wrong-footed and very much uncertain she had come off the better in this whole exchange. "...Go back to your family." Well shit. Maybe she should. What was left of it, anyway.