Awesome~ I'm excited xD

Okay! I was thinking he would assume she died too. He would be beyond excited to see her again, very much alive

That would be kind of funny, haha.
We could do that, or I also had the idea that Penelope's father arranged the marriage for her after she almost got killed by the mercenaries (maybe it's his way of trying to protect her), and the noble/knight is someone she doesn't like at first (like she gets a wrong first impression that he's arrogant or shallow), but slowly grows on her by the time she runs into Crow again.

I'm good either way though ^^