[Is she looking for the training grounds... ? She nods, though she does put a bit of a sheepish look, as if very aware of how it must look, for a woman who looked like her to be asking such a thing.]
They said we might have to be in a fight soon, so...
[Was that explanation enough? He certainly didn't seem to have a friendly attitude, but... Attitude didn't matter to her much at all. It certainly wouldn't do anything to affect whether his blood would be useful for paying off her obeisance, either. So though he regards her somewhat coldly, perhaps suspiciously...
She just stands there for inspection, adjusting the bundle in her arm until-]
Oh--
[As if sure she had misheard him, and he'd actually rejected her request, she belatedly falls in behind him, hurrying a bit to catch up and then keep up with his stride, the bag in her broken fingered hand dangling a bit dangerously.]
Thank you, Mi-
["Mister" wasn't quite right for a man younger than her, even if she was hardly elderly, so-]
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They said we might have to be in a fight soon, so...
[Was that explanation enough? He certainly didn't seem to have a friendly attitude, but... Attitude didn't matter to her much at all. It certainly wouldn't do anything to affect whether his blood would be useful for paying off her obeisance, either. So though he regards her somewhat coldly, perhaps suspiciously...
She just stands there for inspection, adjusting the bundle in her arm until-]
Oh--
[As if sure she had misheard him, and he'd actually rejected her request, she belatedly falls in behind him, hurrying a bit to catch up and then keep up with his stride, the bag in her broken fingered hand dangling a bit dangerously.]
Thank you, Mi-
["Mister" wasn't quite right for a man younger than her, even if she was hardly elderly, so-]
Can I ask your name... ? I'm Carmine...