He was fully unprepared when the woman took his arm and asked him to keep her company. He had never been very easy with the ladies. That was why he was an unmarried man, that and he was a poor fisherman renting a little shack on the first bridge. He took a swallow, "Well the Castle ain't to far from 'ere. As fer company, I guess I could oblidge ya." He nearly jumped when the "dog" sniffed him, and looked slightly unnerved at the mangiest looking thing he'd ever seen. "I'm more afraid of not being able to do what I enjoy more. I mean, can't be that bad right?"