Things are similarly advanced where you're from, then?

[Very curious. He still knows precious little about her world, though given how familiar she's been with certain things here, he's been able to infer that it's rather ahead of his in a number of ways.

He doubts she'd had to tinker with the phones they'd been given half as much as he had, for one.

He finds himself growing more at ease with the expected closeness as they walk, and it's markedly different from browsing through a bazaar alongside his partner would have been, or even the times he had accompanied the princess and their merry band through various outings. Aside from Fran, he tended to keep himself apart even from those he considered close friends, separate, allowing himself the opportunity to keep watch from the back rather than take the lead, despite his self-appointed titled. This was...

Different.

His lips twitch into a fond but reserved smile as he spares a brief glance downwards, returning his gaze to the path ahead in the moments that follow.]

See that you do. I did not offer to be your escort with the intent of steering you away from whatever it is you've come to do.

[Quite the opposite, in fact. He's rather without direction in a place like this.]