Is that so? Well, it's good that you're travelling with someone who's looking out for you, if nothing else. I'm certain if any potential passenger had unruly intentions, she'd see to them quick as a wink.

[ Which is her roundabout way of at least trying to reassure them both that she's not stupid enough to try anything under the watchful gaze of a steed who looks like she could bite Annaliese's head clean off her shoulders without even thinking about it.

The coy, airy sort of affect she'd been holding up wanes a bit at last and she tips up her chin – not quite defiant, but determined. ]

This is a lovely village, but... it's too small for me, is all. I've found myself in a world entirely different from the one I existed in until now and I want nothing more than to see as much of it for myself as I can. There's sure to be beautiful and terrible things here that I'd never even dream of seeing in the place I came from and... it just seems such a waste to stay here and let them go unseen. Don't you think?