It must have been an interesting sight to behold to say the least, watching the short cowboy trying to get the even shorter Indian's attention right there in the General Store. For the Indian woman didn't budge an inch in face of Julian, simply wishing to be let pass and out. Julian was taken back. A combination of her outright refusal to speak with him and her voice, made the Kirkland boy stand in front of the Lakota woman, speechless for a moment. For her voice he had never heard before, and it was like nothing else he had heard either. 

It must also have been embarresing for Julian, because he felt the silence get to him after that moment simply standing there. He rubbed his empty hand over his mouth, as if trying to clear the obstacle seemingly preventing him from speaking. His green eyes parted ways with the Indian's briefly, before locking onto them again. "And I said I needed to speak with you...lady."

Julian knew that this Indian usually came into town with another, her brother. So it was during the moment that their eyes didn't meet that he realized he wasn't there with her. That was not what he had planned. Not that he had that much of a plan as a whole, but he had had the start of it. But now it was only her, and her brother was...

Then it hit him. That was probably why she didn't want to speak with him; She was looking for her brother. Julian could have been wrong, but the thought stuck with him then. From what he had heard, the Indian spent most of his time in town drinking away all of his earnings, not unlike many other of his kin these days. Where he was then and there, he didn't know, but he had an educated guess.

"Okay, just hear me out, Dakota. You are looking for your brother? Because since he ain't here with you, I assume you don't know where he is. I might do, but I need your help first." Julian's voice was just as determined as the woman's composure, though it was a far fetch to say it came natural to him. Like his plan for recovering their horses, he took it one step at the time, making it up as required. 

"Help me, I'll be out of your way and show you were he is."