"Aw, why not? I think you'd make a great gnome," she said, grinning back at him as she walked backwards ahead of him for a few moments. The casual banter was as much of a distraction as the walk. It reminded her in a small way of the way things had been before she'd arrived in the castle. Even if she had no home, no steady job, no idea what the day would bring, she at least would know that there was somebody she could trust at her back.