Neverwinter Forest wasting time on climbing hills

Misunderstood? He laughed uncomfortably -- just a couple of short chuckles -- before taking an uneven half step back towards her his voice waaaay less even than it was before, They ripped each other's throats out, how do you misunderstand that?  But with that Mal felt like he'd gone too far, spun away immediately after finishing the question, taking a few steps away and not looking in her direction at all, as if it would prevent her from seeing how much it had disturbed him.  That had pretty much been the first thing that had happened since he left.  Kind of a hard thing to forget.  What did she want him to do?  Pretend the world was nice and friendly and joyful when it definitely wasn't?!

He slowed his breathing a moment, not looking back at Ibis still.  He had left partially because Elysium didn't actually want to look at reality as far as he could tell.  Life was cruel and again and again it gave him a bad hand, not that anyone else seemed to see it -- Mal's eyes were metaphorically open to it all.