“I kicked him too and would have done worse if your men hadn’t dragged him away. I was trying to knock some sense into him though I think that is a lost cause.” She said with a weak smile.  Elissa muttered a quiet thanks when he draped his coat around her shoulders. She was cold and was fighting to not shiver. “What do I want?” The shock in her voice wasn’t hidden. It surprised her that he was giving her a choice, she’d figured that, as a captive, she would get no choices. 

“I suppose you’d prefer I stay with you so you don’t have to lose a man to guard me since I escaped once.” She confessed. “I had to escape, that Rat was going to shoot me, he did but didn’t succeed at his original goal. I heard him talking to the man you had guarding me. He told him you wanted to speak with him about me, Rat tried to get the keys from him but he wouldn’t hand them over.” Elissa fell silent waiting for what Joseph would say about her escaping. “Pete, I think that’s his name, he wouldn’t have let Rat harm me. I think he suspected something was foul.”