“It’s easy to stop caring if you’ve got enough riches or no one depending on you.” Penelope mumbled with a soft exhale. “I didn’t put up with it because I cared or wanted to. I did it because I had to. Most of my family had already casted me aside and my father was trying his best to train me as a knight but I couldn’t rise in rank if I didn’t start making some proper connections.” The knight gave a shrug as she turned her head to look over at him. She gave him a half-hearted smile. “I wanted to repay my father for all he gave me and make my own name as a noble and knight. I think I’ve done a pretty decent job.

“Well maybe until the whole falling in love with the most infamous thief of Brerra part.” She added with a soft laugh. Penelope gave him an affectionate look that soon faded as she began to think about the troubles that lied ahead. [i]All that work trying to repay my father and in the end, I might just turn on him completely. [/i] She looked away from him, looking distant yet again.  While there was some reluctance to leave behind her job, she felt more torn at the thought of how her family would react to her just up and leaving them behind. Even if she told them where she had gone, she doubted that they’d be very understanding.

[i]Stop thinking about it, Penelope.[/i] She scolded herself as she took a couple small bites of her food.