Aria noticeably bristled at his command but she remained silent. When he spoke again, she kept her mouth shut so as not to anger him again. Her own anger had faded. There was a moment where the thought 'So I get to sit back and watch you die?' flicked across her mind, but it confused her. She had watched plenty of people die, killed a few of them herself, when the court's orders commanded. And those were creatures that she knew better than Phoenix. Why did the thought of his dying bother her so much?<br/><br/>She couldn't bring herself to thank him or apologize, though. It was not his place to tell her what to do with her own life, and it was not acceptable for him to keep her from assisting in their safety. Especially on an excuse as self-sacrificing (and yet selfish at the same time)  as he didn't want to see people die. 'Still obnoxious,' She was surprised to note that the thought almost had an endearing tone in her mind.<br/><br/>We they exited the cave, even the return of the breeze could not lift Aria's spirits back to where they had been. Instead, when told the destination, she simply nodded and headed that way. "And what, when we reach there?" She asked. "What happens then?"