The gun will be a lot more effective, obviously, if he wants to kill the mountain lion, but Caitlin doesn't really take killing lightly; even an animal. So when he looks back at her and holds up the gun asking about it, Caitlin shakes her head. "Unless you're going to kill it..." she says frowning slightly, her eyes on the mountain lion. It still appears to be poised to pounce, but it hasn't actually attempted an offense just yet.

Her eyes move back to Adam. "Unless you're going to kill it, it doesn't do any good. A mountain lion doesn't know what a gun is; that's not intimidating. But it does know what a branch is and it probably knows that it hurts to be hit with one," she points out.

The creature is frozen staring back at them and Caitlin wishes she'd watched more Discovery Channel in her free time, because she honestly can't tell whether it's preparing to strike or waiting to see if they're preparing to strike. "I can try it...have my back with the gun? If this doesn't work...kill it?" she offers, gripping the branch a little bit tighter. Caitlin Snow, the woman behind the computer, offering to try to intimidate a mountain lion away from them just to spare its life because right now, it isn't doing anything wrong. They're in its territory and it's probably weighing its options because there are more of them than there are of it. Killing it just for behaving standoffish in this situation doesn't seem fair, but Caitlin's a softie like that.