Know Your Surroundings

fading this out because i am an epic fail lol

He smiled thinly at her thought of keeping an eye out for trouble. For as much as he was inclined to sway her to join them, Mordecai did not feel it was rightfully his place to go about bringing in the strays. Regardless of relation. Still, he supposed if she did stay in close to things, in time she was liable to find her way inside with the rest of them. And that brought a sense of contentment to him, if only for the fact that he was seemingly able to foster at least one positive relationship with what scattered relatives he was discovering to have in the region.

"I try to," he went on to say as her words trailed off, and it was the truth. Mordecai did not openly go searching for trouble, though at times it may have been reckoned that it came to find him. And so he saw her off, following her out beyond the borders of the plateau as their conversation dwindled.