"Piss off, already. You're like a bug buzzing around my ears."

He stops to glower fiercely at that annoying little girl from his place up front. Vena had visibly start to sulk, and something about that bothered him. Maybe it was the way she so desperately wanted Lashan's approval that felt familiar to him. It irritated him to see her so worked up over nothing, over what some soft-hearted old smith might do.

If anyone was going to be banished, it was the outsider everyone hated anyway. It'll be back to where he started, out on the trail where he preferred to be.