Neverwinter Forest That leads us to a better land

She showed up fairly quickly. Mal of course had no idea what had transpired. But he did kind of wonder if she had some sort of bizarre telepathic connection or something with her -- but Belharra had gone the opposite direction so it seemed unlikely. So was something else afoot? Blinkblink. Well. He'd break his bad news first, but the tilt of his head 

He gave her a smile, but it wasn't quite as broad as other times, Hey! Still, he chose his words carefully. I have some bad news for you, he said, I'm sorry, but Belharra just left. Ran into Hydra, then she joined the party and didn't want to take 'don't try to pick a fight' as an answer. Her own choice. His ears tipped back slightly then. If whatever seemed to maybe be bugging her wasn't that, then he was expecting her to be pretty shocked. At least this time the disagreement between them hadn't been his fault at all -- he'd been perfectly reasonable.