Johoel smiled softly looking at the girl<span style="font-style: italic">"It's alright, I guess you didn't knock me down on purpose. Now help...I don't suppose you have brought food and water with you?"</span>she had said her request restin gin his ears as he thought it over quickly. "I have some dried fruit but no water as of yet" he said kneeling down onto the hot earth looking over his pack as he searched for the dried fruit he had bought at a previous village. He offered her the dried fruit that hung in a small animal pelt.<br/><br/>"If you don't mind may I ask where you are headed? maybe you wouldn't mind some company?" he asked with a light smile across his gentle face. Gathering the small items that escaped his pack he awaited her reply as he thought over the situation, it was rare to find a woman alone along the roads. But to each there own he thought as he  gathered the last of the escaped items now secure back in the pack that had rested on his shoulders.