Blacktail Deer Plateau Last Resort [IC Joining]

Still she avoided answering him. Peregrine bristled slightly, huffing impatiently. He sought her eyes, his own reflecting his frustration. Was she being difficult on purpose? Peregrine generally treated the fairer sex with more leniency than he did males, yet already she'd irritated him once and here she was, on the verge of pissing him off all over again.

"I don't keep a radio collar on her, so I don't have a clue where she is at the moment. I know she's within howling distance, though. But I'm not going to waste her time along with mine until you make it exceedingly clear you actually want to join. Well... Xi'nuata?" It felt too familiar to call her Xin after all, especially when he was trying to sound stern (because everybody knows there's nothing sterner than busting out someone's full name). He ended up enunciating it as something like sin-squat-ah, much to his irritation.