The guardian shut up immediately, of course, lips pursing inward, teeth biting the insides of cheeks. He didn't really intend to make Uldren angry - not that it was necessarily difficult to do - but Mac responded to stress very differently from the prince. If he was upset he retreated to things that cheered him up under normal circumstances. Trudging along in silence wasn't beneficial to anyone, so far as he saw it, but the last thing he needed to be doing was making the assassin mad.

"I'm not acting like an ass," he mumbled sullenly, pouting childishly and sniffing as he kicked a pebble into the treeline nearby, startling some goat-like animal.

"You're an ass," he added, much too quietly to be overheard. In the meanwhile Ghost turned off the music and disappeared from view, reintegrating himself with Mac and staying out of sight. Certainly a sight smarter and more convenient than Mac, who couldn't go anywhere or do anything about the situation.

"I don't know what you're so worried about, anyways," Mac spoke up after a while, shrugging slightly. "That guide guy said we could get home with a little jumping around, and if we make it all the way back to our own time and all, it'll be like we never left in the first place."