The lack of an immediate reply miffed Cain, but he bit his tongue to stop from yelling more. It wouldn't do him any good and birds already scattered from the trees when he'd been walking as part of the forest before. Whatever silence he had before had been lost. "Shut up," he snapped. Nick was too honest. It made Cain's fingers shake with the need to clench around something, so he flexed them, trying to keep his senses alert. He knew he still walked in the forest and he had no intention of proving Nick right that he needed an escort. "If you knew that I didn't want you here, then why do you keep following. I'm not your friend or brother. You don't have to be my keeper. Only a fool would be worried about a stranger!"