Penelope was caught off guard by how genuinely confused he sounded. It was far from what she had been expecting. The knight faltered at his reply. She flinched at the hurt in his voice. It seemed to her that he truly didn't know anything about what had occurred the night before. She felt a bit of relief wash over her as she began to realize that Crow was innocent while also a new feeling wave of guilt for accusing him. "You really don't know anything about what happened last night.." she mumbled as looked over at him searchingly. 

The knight frowned and averted her gaze. "All of our night guards were killed and about half of our supplies were stolen. The camp's been in chaos all day since it was enough to put us at a heavy disadvantage.. I thought-I thought only thought it was you because everything seemed to point to that. I mean, you had a raid planned that night and told me to give away by guard duty. If it had happened any other time, I wouldn't have jumped to that conclusion so fast." she gave a soft sigh. "I was even expecting you to have some reasoning for it when I came here tonight.. I mean.. If it wasn't you then, who-"

"He's lying." 

Penelope jumped and whirled around at the sound of Gavin's voice behind her. The male knight stepped into the clearing with one hand on the hilt of his sword as he glared across at Crow. She shot a glare at him and shifted in front Crow protectively. "You followed me? I told you to let me handle this alone." she hissed with clear annoyance seeping into her voice. 

"And let him hurt you? Or manipulate you like he's trying to do now?" Gavin snorted and stepped closer to Penelope. "I'm sorry but I'm not just going to stand back and let him do that." he shot an accusing look at Crow. "Why don't you start telling the truth, thief?"