She began walking again beside him though the smile was still on her face, "I was too defenseless, I mean you were such a brutish man who came after poor little o' me" she laughed her hand moving to grasp his own as they walked. "I mean when you had that frightful beard I thought that I was facing some wild animal and not a man" she continued with the light teasing as they walked her hand still holding his own while they walked north to their future.