Bearclaw Valley I was only having fun

You can work to keep peace all you want, but shit always ends up going south one time or another. It's inevitable. He is quick to agree with her. But it is only because he knows this purely from experience. He wouldn't say it if not. 

As she turns to guide him onward, he falls in step at her flank. A distance is kept between them, but still, he lingers close. She is a fighter, like him; but never before has his guardian instinct wavered.