Orion wasn't nearly as light footed, but he had a certain deadly grace to him as he moved through the woods. He leaped and halted as if his considerable bulk was a boon rather than a hindrance in how he made his way through difficult terrain. Most knights were one of two ways; polished or brutal. He was a step in both worlds. Brutal in terms of looks, but polished in noble authority. 

"I feel-" He said as she took another step, her leg disappearing under the stream when the step was far deeper than she thought. He caught her forearm. "-much safer now that you're here to keep me safe." There was a grin on his handsome face, and he pulled her back up onto the shallow end. There was a log to the right that encompassed the stream. 

"I'll do my best to help keep you safe." He promised, trudging out of the river as she nimbly made her way to the log. Her explanation on her duties were sound enough. He'd already known most of it, but it was good to hear that Priests of her order didn't differ intensely with other Confessors. 

"I can't tell if we're doing well so far." He admitted snidely. He pulled against his shield strap to keep it steady as he crossed the log behind her. 

"I think we're doing grand," He said, and he couldn't tell if she was serious or not. "All as the Pancreator wills it." 

There were raised voices east of them, and they both stopped to look at one another, and then find refuge in a copse of bushes. He didn't need to place a finger to her lips. The forest might be unusual to her tastes, but he had the sense her survival instinct was on par with his. 

Three burly raiders appeared out of the treeline, laughing and arguing in their strange tongue. Their speech halted and started in a way Orion couldn't begin to pattern, but he didn't care. Two of the three men unlaced their primitive trousers and stood by the stream to urinate. The third stood watch, though only at the basest sense of the word. He seemed too busy speaking to the other two. 

Sir Orion unsheathed his sword a mere inch and looked to Sister Annika, his eyebrow raised questioningly. 
[@Penny]