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Paige

Truthfully, Paige hadn't been expecting for him to answer all of her questions. No one ever does. She was lucky if she usually got three, but he answered all of them. "It would be cooler if you lived in an igloo." Both literally and figuratively. Paige gave him a look that clearly said she was unimpressed by his lack of bear friends, not thinking that was a valid enough excuse not to have one. He just wasn't trying hard enough as far as she was concerned.

However, he managed to distract her from her judgement of his lack of animal friends with the impromptu tracking lesson. Suddenly very interested in learning something new, Paige paid close attention to what Sah said, staring hard at the tracks and trying to see what he saw. It was pretty hard, but eventually she did make out the little paw prints. "But there isn't any grass in Halo. How do you track on ice? Do animals skate on ice? That would be pretty cool..." The last part was mostly wondered aloud to herself, but she wouldn't mind an actual answer either.

Paige wrinkled her nose and stuck her own tongue out at him in return, "You just got lucky." She quipped, tugging on his hand as she hurried forward, seeming to know just where she was going.

Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind
They count me out time and time again