Sunspire Mountains this circumstancial consequence

Instead of the usual thank-you to such a thing, he was met with a question. One that briefly caused his smile flash onto his face, not entirely sure how to take the question that she posed. She didn't seem particularly miffed by it, but who knew for certain. "Am I?" he countered momentarily. His gaze shifted to the land beside him, and he tried to recall if he had done the same the last time. "I guess old habits die hard." Maybe then, it had been to ward her away from the Spine and the likes of those who didn't take easily to strangers.

He found it amusing, really. Looking out for others, as though it were really his duty to do so. Perhaps when he had been in charge of others, but now? Mordecai supposed he could give advice no more than boss someone else around. He wondered where the notion had stepped up in him to do so. "I don't doubt your judgement, of course," he added on, as though it would help him save a little face with her. For all intensive purposes, the last thing he wanted to do was weaken the civility that they had fostered in their prior meeting.

Of course, he supposed he hardly knew her as well.