Daric laughed as he listened to the story and turned back to look at Ariadne, after a moment he realized he was staring a little too long and turned back to Merrick "she's amazing isn't she, I don't know what kind of thing the elvens expected in their princess but if it were my princess, the last thing I expected of her to do would be to become a ranger and traveling alone in the woods killing things and protecting small inns" he chuckled, sounding almost dreamy. He shook his head and looked back at the man as he got out breakfast "you could at least tell the kid that you're ok with him doing this ya, know? what's the pointing of hiding it?".