Sawtooth Spire bleed through spaces

Her confidence and frustration grew in equal measure as the conversation stagnated. The man pretended not to care whether or not she stayed — a clear slight against her! In his failure to kowtow, she read pointed slights against her appearance, comportment, and personality. And honestly, how dare?

Saturnine decided to give him another chance. One that surely had nothing to do with any desperation or desire on her part.

"Did you climb all this way just to look?" she asked, and she did not have to feign the curiosity in her voice.

She had decided he was not interested in hurting her. The way his eyes tracked her movements was something she was accustomed to, and so she felt free enough to turn her back and look around in earnest. It was a pretty place. Well-protected from both other wolves and the weather, she thought, and it appealed to something in her lizard brain. It was not, however, what she had come all this way to find.