Broken Antler Fen [BWP] Why is Jim treating the magician poorly?

"Well, they do not so much live as they take form, when the weather gets bad. You can think of them as snow and ice coming together and having a personality," Wraen chuckled, hoping that her choice of words was not too complex for the girl to understand. It was difficult really to determine, how bright kids were. "And after the summer solstice, when the days are getting longer and warmer, the giants melt and disappear," she finished. 

"But - did you know that you can make a comfy and warm den in the snow?" she asked. "It is an age-old secret that the ground beneath the snow is warmer than the open air above it. Plus, it protects you from cold wind too," she told. "We can make one now, if you want to?"