Penelope smirked slightly at his taunting and shrugged her shoulders. “Not like there’s much work to be done at the moment besides walking anyways.” She said with a small laugh. “Might as well enjoy it a little. What shocks me is that you didn’t do it before me.” The knight relaxed a little now, glad to, not only switch the subject, but also push her worries aside for the time being. 

She smiled in amusement as he brought up his game of exchanging stories. She blinked as he promised to answer her more directly now, which made her briefly think of all the answers he had given her to his more personal stories. It was easy to recall a few times when he had been vague or lied to her. Despite this, the knight felt like he had still shared more truthfully with her than all the lies or other such deceitful words. To her, the promise might have been unnecessary but it was still nice to hear coming from him. “Alright.” She agreed with a small nod. 

“I don’t think there’s much to tell you with that question though.” Penelope said with a small laugh. The knight shrugged. “I don’t think I’ve changed too much after all... Let’s see.. Before this mission, I was just working amongst the castle guards. It was usually a pretty easy job. Just a lot of monitoring, walking around. Though we did have this crazy thief try to steal the king’s crown about a year ago.” She joked shooting him an accusing glance. “But that wasn’t even during one of my shifts.”

Penelope paused and let out a small sigh. “As you know, part of the reason I took the job was so I could see my father and brother. It was the main reason really. I spent months far from them and though I sent letters, it was rare for them to ever write back. At one point it had been so long, I got worried that something might have happened to them so when I heard about this job I jumped on it as soon as I could.. I hadn’t really dealt very much with prisoners or criminals before. I’ve help catch a couple thieves before but I was never around them very long. After all, it usually went one of three ways. They’d get away, they’d get killed, or we’d capture them and send them off with some prison guards.”

“So I wasn’t exactly the first choice. First was William because of his experience. Second was Abraxas, merely because of his efforts to become the king’s ambassador. William and I had worked together before on a few occasions so I was able to convince him rather easily that I’d be a good addition. With his recommendation, I was able to get on this mission.” She explained to Crow. “So when we first met, I acted like how I had been taught to act and how I had seen others act. Clearly it didn’t work very well.” She said with a soft laugh.

Penelope smiled as she looked over at him. “But that’s about it. What about you? Before that year in prison, I mean."