"Perhaps if you had been here, she wouldn't have been tortured!" retorts Bahir, his body springing back due to its elastic qualities. "Now, I was ready to be friendly and welcoming, but if you're going to barge in here and insult my mate in front of our children, then you can get the hell back out there into the forest! Perhaps this is why nobody came looking for you! And it's pretty damn stupid to go running off on your own, and then complain that you had no-one to back you up!"