Eloquence isn't Heat's strong suit, and formulating a response that doesn't end in some measure of aggression in some fashion is a struggle. Assuming the worst is always in comparison, really easy, and less adept by far at masking emotions, his surprise darkens by degrees at the implication, a fleeting moment of hurt buried swiftly under rising ill temper.

Someone's tribe is almost everything. Of all people to abandon it.. he never thought it'd be Serph. If tribe could be tossed aside so easily, what did that mean for everything that went with it? "Huh. What, so you get to Nirvana and just threw us away?"

And grew a fancy bunch of wings.