Well Vita, I was willing to follow through with what we had going, provided you were willing to listen, and also explain how the firechick could survive a pretty strong attack from Guts. Instead you kinda just forgot about me, so I figured it better to go ahead and continue on with my own thing, and wait for another opportunity to enter the main plot.
If it's really that much of a problem, we could always restart the encounter. You can even use a different NPC if you want, one that would draw less ire.