Rising Sun Valley that sad earthly scene

Pfft, all my posts are trash eventually. Also Echelon is a jerk.

The minute note of hostility in his correction almost prompted her to correct him, but she thought better of it. Part of it was out of the fact she didn't have the energy to defend herself this late into the evening, and part of it was because she didn't want to deal with it. There was no consideration that perhaps he ached in the ways she did as well. Perhaps he also hungered like she did, but those were minor things on the grand scheme of time. Eventually their bellies would be full and their bodies rested better than they had been. This moment would fade away into the past, in time.

Echelon bored of the conversation they were having, however. She was no adviser, had no special way with words or otherwise managed a calming effect on others. She was no board for them all to sound off on. Even in spite of him affirming that she was right on some points, the inky creature had nothing else to offer him. She had said her piece; from there the silence would let it settle in. To persist, she felt, would make a fool out of either of them.

"Let us return to Tonravik," she decided, striking out ahead of him to change the flow in which they traveled. But there was something antagonizing in the way she commandeered this, something in her own swagger that suggested he follow at his own decision. If he didn't, then he didn't. Echelon had no qualms on going the road ahead of them alone. But the time for rest had come in her eyes, with the night wearing on and her interest in scouting lost. Tonravik would no doubt rouse them or her alone early if she had settled in somewhere for the night.