The Word -Indurate

Yorvet leaned forward in his seat, templing his fingers just under his chin.
Kolt narrowed his eyes refusing to break eye contact. "So why did you? Leave them lit?" He demanded into the silence. "You didn't even know if I would come back."
"If you came back or if you didn't, either way you would have ended up as a horse again."
Kolt rolled his eyes. Yah, he knew that. A horse. Yorvet favored him as a horse. "So why the farce then, Yorvet? You just wanted to watch me squirm?"
"I hardly needed to make you run back to camp to see you squirm." Yorvet stood, moving behind Kolt.
Kolt turned to keep him in his sight. If he was going to be magicked again, he didn't want to be caught unawares. "Then why the farce if you were going to make me a horse anyways?"
"Because I'm not." Yorvet said simply.
"Of course you---you're not?"
Yorvet chuckled. "You came back. Before the fires went out right? That means no horse form for you."
Kolt threw up his hands. "Great! Why did you leave the fires lit!" he asked a snarl to his voice. "Yorvet, why?"
"To see how indurate you are, Kolt. You made it back here. A bit slow, but faster than I believed you would."


Indurate -physically or morally hardened

Added Info- "Indurate" is a hard word--in more ways than one. Not only is it fairly uncommon in modern usage, but it also can be traced back to Latin  durare, meaning "to harden." (Durare can mean "to endure" as well, and appropriately "indurate" is a word that has lasted any years--it has been a part of the English language since the 14th century.) Durare is also the root of other durable English words, including "during," "endure," "duration," "durance" (an archaic word meaning "endurance"), and even "durable" itself. In addition, "indurate" can be a verb meaning "to make or grow hard," "to make unfeeling, stubborn, or obdurate," and "to establish firmly."