Emberflame Ridge schneemusik

Mali stopped trying to turn into a bush.  It almost sounded like Mahler had actually listened to him... Which was kind of weird.  Mali was pretty used to just being dismissed as some combination of liar and just some child not worth paying attention to.  He dipped his head to try and get a better look at Mahler, to try to figure out if he was just saying random things to make Mali comfortable to trick him into coming out so he could chop him up into tiny bits and hide him in the walls or if by some freak chance Mahler actually kind of meant what he said.  To say Mali had trust issues would be understatement of the century. 

Either way, it had given him something to think about, apparently, because he was quieter both in volume and amount of words.  But how'm I supposed to know that you or anyone else isn't just gonna be worse?  Before it's too late or something.  He didn't want to risk Brilliance, and Mahler had gone and chased him into a bush so that wasn't exactly a ton of points in his favor, even if the bush thing was Mali's idea.