"I don't doubt that," Edwina said, returning his grin. It wasn't that hard to imagine the large warrior crushing a wall somewhere and making a building come crashing down. Even though they hadn't run into any trouble since the highwaymen on the road 3 days past, traveling with a warrior such as Hugh gave her a sense of security and she found herself letting her guard drop. 

"Let's find somewhere to make camp soon," Straw said. "Then we can get an early start looking for ways down into the ruins."

"We've got a few hours of daylight left yet," Edwina said, looking at the older man, wondering why he wanted to make camp so early. "Might be able to find it today." 

Straw seemed strangely hesitant. "Think I might have tweaked my knee a bit ago," he said, still rubbing his knee with his hand. "Just don't want to strain it too much, then be useless for a couple days."