For a moment, an angry wind, heavy with the threat of imepnding storm, snapped back Kalinda's hair and her face hardened as she rose to the challenge.<i>I'm not in the mood for gossip,</i>was a perfectly acceptable brush off, but, comparing her to the superficial gosiip mongers ciculating throguhout out this party in even the most flattering terms, much less calling her one of the hens, were fighting words!<br/><br/>Kalinda growled, "If I were in the mood for featherbrained gossip, I'd have saught out a featherhead.  I was looking for someone just as fed up with these bullshit proceedings as I was, for your information, so if you want to get out of this fire trap and share a smoke, I'm your girl, if not, no thank you is all you need to say, but insult me like that again and we'll be having words outside tonight, got that?"