Once again, she abandoned the moral for the practical. After those words were spoken, her fingers started rifling through the dead man's pockets, to scrounge for items they could use on the road. The roll of bandages she managed to find, she kept, as well as a set of lockpicks and a small vial of healing potion. Money was of little matter to her and she had no use for heavier tools and weapons. Documents, whenever she could find them, were typically important to her, and while she was looking for them, she didn't expect to find them on any of the ones her party had killed.
The groan from the man she kicked into unconsciousness tore her from her concentrated efforts. Uncoiling a length of rope from her pack, she turned to nudge the man over and propped him up against the nearest tree. His injuries were minor, and while she held no guilt in what she had done (for it had been necessary at the time), it was relieving all the same to know that he would live. It didn't, in any way, keep her from trussing him up against the trunk. If they were leaving, she didn't want anyone following.
The historian dragged the back of her knuckles over her forehead to dislodge the beads of perspiration accumulating there, stabbing a dagger on the ground -- just slightly out of reach of her unwilling captive and straightening up. A glance over her shoulder told her that the Wardens were still engaging the elven woman, hesitating from her progress to listen in attentively. There was an invitation to come with them from the templar; it wasn't something wholly unexpected, but the words drew her eyes to him. Despite his heavy and disapproving expression -- he had only grown to become an expert at it -- she saw past the protective layers and felt her heart sink lower somewhere within her ribcage.
Alderic wasn't merely unhappy.
She absently toed a pebble by her foot once her hands returned to her pockets, shaking her head once. Sweeping her gaze upwards, she frowned at the state of the day and called to the rest.
"We're burning daylight," she reminded. "We'll need to be well away from here before night falls and I wouldn't recommend traveling in the dark around these areas."