It was completely inappropriate how he had touched her, but she hadn't minded one bit. She had been touched that he had felt compelled to comfort her in such a manner and it had torn her from her thoughts that had been about to consume her. She smiled at him gratefully, her cheeks still a bit pink from embarrassment. She watched as he looked away and she couldn't help but drop her own gaze down towards her lap where she folded her hands, the skin tingling from where he had touched her.<br/><br/>"How far away are we from the town?" She was glad that her father had chosen him to accompany her. She didn't want to imagine what other kinds of knight could have been sent in his stead. She could have been stuck with an intolerably distant knight who didn't say a word. That would have been so very awkward.