Haunted Wood I can keep away the creeps

He dared to inch closer to her, offering a comforting nudge. 
"I can't make any promises. My word is the best I can offer. I've never seen this pack. I don't know the leaders. I only know Awenfen." 
He answered genuinely. 
"If I wanted to kill you I wouldn't waste my time dragging you across the teekons. I would simply take your life right here and tell them you died on the journey." And of course he had not, and would not, made a move towards such an act.