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She had given Zhi a small, unenthusiastic smile for his idea that she could get answers from the Head Priestess, a woman that as far as she could tell went out of her way to make providing answers difficult, always hiding something, always playing up on the act of being super mysterious. It made speaking with her aggravating, but like Zhi, Shaheen had never questioned her leadership.

"Maybe so." She murmured, mostly to herself, her eyebrows drawing down in a small frown. "I guess we shall see."

After asking Zhi the question of what he had been doing, she was forced to wait, mostly impatiently, as he so obviously struggled to even remember what it was that had made him think it was prudent to climb a tree and fall out of it. And then he jumped up. And then he began flailing his long sleeved arms, nearly whipping her in the face with their cloth, forcing her to flinch back and roll away lest she be tangled in them.

Men were silly. Insufferable, mule headed, incapable, but mostly just silly. And of all the men she had ever met, Zhi was the absolute silliest of them all.

She pushed herself to her feet, her lips pressing into an unimpressed line as she stepped towards him, but gave his sleeves a wide berth so she could tilt her head up and to the side, searching for the thief that had taken his thread. Ah, there it was! Surprisingly it hadn't been startled away by all of the noise.

She shot Zhi a look and gave a sharp shake of her head, holding her index finger up in a shushing motion, and then pointing at the dark mass of feathers above, before speaking to him in hushed tones.

"Why am I not surprised that you were outsmarted by a bird?" She might have looked like she was chastising him, but there was good humor laced in her tone. She was obviously struggling not to laugh at him, her foul mood finally shifting, but only because of Zhi's misfortune.

Shaheen had to move a lot to avoid getting hit with those damned sleeves of his, and she summoned her dagger and waved it at him in a rather threatening manner. "If you don't stop that, I'll cut them off!" She hissed at him, eyes narrowing. She was so super serious right now, Zhi, you did not want to mess with her. Really. She wasn't about to start laughing. Nope.

"Oh well if you're teacher said that when you were four I'm sure it still remains true today." She rolled her eyes, completely giving up on attempting to remain quiet as the bird didn't look as though it was going to fly away anyways.

"Here, you go ahead and climb the tree again. I'll keep an eye out in case the corrividus has called for any back up." She had somehow managed to smooth her face down into a completely serious mask once more. Never mind the fact that she had wings and could likely capture the filthy thing with her bare hands. She needed to actually see Zhi fall this time.

That was it. That completely did it. Whatever anger spurned by both embarrassment and lack of sleep quickly fled as Shaheen watched with a certain amount of amazement, Zhi's attempt at climbing a tree. Or lack of an attempt, as it were, since he seemed to think that running at it headlong and jumping was the best course of action. Her stern features melted away as her lips quickly twitched up into a smirk of amusement, her entire face lighting up at the sight.

And then she burst out laughing, keeled over, arms crossed under her ribs. She laughed so hard and loud that tears began forming at the corners of her eyes, tears that she didn't even bother to wipe away, and which began to trickled down her face even as she collapsed to her knees.

"That was brilliant." She gasped, finally shouting towards wherever he had landed in the bush between loud guffaws. "Your teacher was definitely right about you, Zhi."

More laughter. She was pretty sure she couldn't stop laughing if her life depended on it right now.