Without looking away from the door, Shannon gave Jay a dubious sidelong glance. "Yeah, I'm not really a people person," she replied. "So that's not really my thing."
She very nearly went on to give the excuse that the shelter she'd already set up for herself had warmed considerably in comparison to this place because she'd closed it all up to trap the heat from the torch, but then he'd probably want to follow her back and Shannon would prefer to keep her own form of housing a secret for the time being.