Rising Sun Valley a backlit canopy with holes punched in it

She was quickly coming to the notion that the way north was probably full of the trouble she was seeking to avoid. Echelon wasn't really after a traveling companion in going that way and it seemed that the Glacier's little sentinel of sorts wasn't about to let her off the hook so easily. But she followed when he started forward, not commenting one way or another on his offer of showing her the way. It wasn't an open-ended question anyway, decisively showing her that her opinion wouldn't do much good in the long run.

But it was a guise she was willing to play up for the time being. As they pressed onward, she allowed a minute moment of silence to press between them as she gave him a little space. Small talk wasn't much of her thing, but once more, she was willing to make some sort of attempt to gather her thoughts. "Are you from around here?" It seemed a fair question, seeing that he knew his way around where she wasn't supposed to. There was still room to say he may not have really had anything to do with the glacier area anyway. He could have been a native, someone who knew the ins and outs of the region far better than she would more than likely ever achieve.