What did the boy think she was? Some common bard to entertain him at his leisure? "No I prefer to lead my own horse. And I really don't think I have much interesting to tell about the lands outside Chelliax." she said. She could have told him of the time she served at the court of the lindorm King. Those Northerners was far form the uncivilized people most thought them. Or she could have told him about her travels to River Kingdoms. But she didn't. She needed him for one purpose and had no intention to make nice with him or anything.