Penelope relaxed a little as Crow agreed to work with her. As she suspected, there seemed to be something he was holding back due to Gavin's presence. She glanced over at Gavin, wishing the male knight would agree to leave. He made it clear that he made no intention of leaving them alone though so she didn't even bother to try and push him to go, knowing that he likely wouldn't listen to her even if she did. The female knight turned to look back at Crow as he began to explain that he had an idea of who had raided their camp. 

As she had guessed, the group they were going up against was dangerous, however, it sounded a bit worse than what she had been expecting. Though her determination to find them didn't waver, she began to understand why Crow had wanted them to forget about going after the group of thieves. She wished she could ask more about how Crow had run into these cruel people but with Gavin around, she knew it'd have to be a question for another time. She held his gaze with a serious look of her own, listening to his words of warning. "Alright." She agreed giving his hand a small, reassuring squeeze. "I promise I won't go after them without you." Penelope leaned up and pressed a soft kiss to his cheek. "We'll deal with them together."

"And that includes me too." Gavin added, giving Crow a challenging look. 

Penelope sighed and looked over her shoulder at Gavin. "What?"

"If these people are as dangerous as he claims, you're going to need all the help you can get right?" Gavin shrugged. "I told you I want to help you. If that means hunting down thieves with another thief, then that's just what I'm going to do."

The female knight gave an uncertain look and glanced over at Crow. It likely wouldn't hurt to have the additional back up but she had a problem with it being Gavin. She could already guess that the knight and thief wouldn't work too well together. Unfortunately, she also doubted telling Gavin no would even work. The male knight would likely pull a similar move of following her out to meet with Crow again. 

"Besides, I doubt Mia would willingly let you go on a patrol by yourself right now. If I go with you, I can help you cover this up as well." Gavin offered. 

Penelope shifted and gave Crow a weak shrug before looking back over at Gavin. "Alright, fine." she gave in with a reluctant nod. Though she would have preferred Gavin to keep out of it, she also supposed there were some perks to having another knight to work with. At least she could trust him to keep her meetings with Crow a secret and even if he was reluctant to work with the thief, she knew he likely wouldn't go jumping into any fights with him so long as tensions didn't rise again.