Penelope raised an eyebrow at Gavin as she noticed his gaze narrow in on Crow. Already she was beginning to dislike where he was heading with this. His gaze made it apparent that it had something to do with the thief and—knowing Gavin's distrust of him—guessed that it wasn't something good. As Crow spoke up, she nodded her head in agreement with her words. He had mentioned something about suspecting that Jaxon had possibly something to do with how guarded the villagers were so perhaps making up some lie to throw off the knights was apart of it. 

Gavin clearly didn't think so. 

She let out a quiet sigh as the male knight began his accusation of Crow. He had tried it multiple times now but his confidence threw her off a bit more than anything else. Which meant that it was going to be difficult for her to talk him down from his certainty that Crow was the real enemy. "Gavin..." she mumbled disapprovingly as he met her gaze, going on about how he believed Crow had tampered with their food. However, she didn't have much time to reply as Crow defended himself against the other man. She felt a spark of annoyance at how proudly Gavin strung together his theory about Crow tampering with their dinner and slipping off in the middle of the night to get the villagers to lie for him. 

Perhaps if it had been anyone other than Crow she would have taken Gavin more seriously, however, she found it all to just be a misunderstanding, especially after Crow explained what had happened with his food. She had already thought Crow was the one responsible when their camp was first raided and—remembering how hurt he had been by the accusation as well as how much he had shared with her about Jaxon—she couldn't bring herself to believe Gavin. Afterall, if what he said was true, that would mean Crow  had used her in efforts to slip around the knights as well as the fact that he had rather brutally killed her comrades. 

[i]And I know he'd never do that..[/i] Now it was just a matter of getting Gavin to believe that before he caused actual trouble with his assumptions. Penelope shifted closer to Crow, placing her hand on his shoulder. "It's alright." she told him with a small shrug. "It may have been my first meal but it won't be my last.. Besides I think this is just a big misunderstanding."

Gavin stared at her with a shocked expression. Having been so proud and confident in his findings, it was clear he wasn't expecting her to still side with Crow at the end of it all. "But Penelope-"

"Look Gavin, I understand why you think it's him but you've just got the wrong guy.." she said shaking her head. "It's like when I thought he was the one who raided our camp at first. Things seemed to line up but it just wasn't the case."

"You weren't wrong about that though." Gavin said and glared hostilely at Crow. "He's just lying and manipulating you. Penelope, I'm not just accusing him out of thin air, the food and villagers are poof. He used you so he could take your guard shift so he could cover his own ass."

"He wouldn't do that. You're just looking for any reason you can to pin it on him." Penelope growled, growing irritated with the accusations.

"I'm just trying to protect you. He's been distracting you from seeing the truth."

She let out a huff and shook her head. "I'm not arguing about this anymore.. Think what you'd like but don't do anything more." she said sternly and then crossed her arms. "We can at least agree that the tip to Azmar was likely fake.. I think it's best we just get back to camp and take a day or two to figure out our next move." Penelope let out a small sigh and looked up at Crow. "What do you think?"