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Bazi's attempt at a jest found its mark, and her restrained grin burst to reveal teeth and a pink tongue. Bazi : 1, Awkwardness: 0. Rainier seemed rather more easygoing than some of the others - Shadow in particular, though her relationship with the silvered outrider was much, much better after their frank conversation on this very hill.

She listened to his story with patient interest. "Why did you leave at all? Everyone I speak to seems to have left home.. on purpose, a lot of the time." A chirp of a laugh escaped her, as if the decision to abandon a perfectly good pack was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard (she was still coming to terms with Njal and Tuwawi's decision to leave). "Maybe you were chased out! Should I be worried?" The question was asked smilingly, but there was a definite undercurrent of I'm Dead Serious there.