[Rosekitten]

Volke was pacing at first, he was too caught up in his thoughts to notice that Melissa had moved. No that didn't come to light till the door suddenly slammed and he noticed that she wasn't in the cave still. Well that was odd, even for her. He had almost become use to her chattering all the time or making some smart ass reply to everything under the sun that for her to just up and leave seemed out of character. He had a thought to just let her run off but something told him that if he did then it might be the last time he saw her. Then he'd never get a answer as to why she darted off without a word.

Luckily she had dropped the cloaking spell she had up or she might have gotten to where she planned to go. At first he thought she was going to stop and talk to him, that thought quickly died as he noticed the tears already steaming on her face. Let alone the second he started to say something to her was when she moved and broke into a full fledged run. Where in the world... why was she running towards the city? That was like the last place that either of them needed to head towards at the moment.

Not that she got far, he didn't think twice on using a ability against her so he could catch up. It seemed the skill too effect as she stopped moving and seemed confused at first as to why she had stopped moving till she looked to see the arrow. Templars didn't have ranged attacks but he had perfected these little tricks. They came in handy from time to time. Even when he didn't really want to use a ability on her without good reason to at the moment.

Right away she started spouting off that she hated him and didn't want to be around him. Volke couldn't help the look he gave her before he walked closer. Yeah right, after last night he knew that was a lie. Something had happened somewhere between last night and now to bring this on. "Tsk, of all the damned times to try and lie to me you pick now? Even a fool could tell you are lying through your teeth." He said half crossing his arms and giving her a bit of a impenitent glare.

As he seemed to get no answer from Melissa he grew tired of waiting. No instead he spoke up asking her what she was thinking about or what had changed. Last night they got along well enough even if he did wake up every so often just to make sure he didn't have a dagger in his back or something. Waiting as she finally decided to open her mouth as she spoke. Though hardly a answer he was expecting.

He half looked at her like how did she come to that thought even. "When I- No I wasn't talking about you." He breathed out half stepping back before running a hand through his hair hastily. "whatever happened 'was hardly your fault. It's been coming. I .. this morning I was talking about how stupid it was to run from the templars and the guards." He seemed calm about this thought at first till he went on. "They aren't going to hesitate to put out some bounty on a rogue templar. Chantry and their secrets.. they don't like them being out of their sight." With that he moved back a little to take a few steps. Probably by now the skill he had used on her wore off.

"It was stupid... damned stupid. Well known fact the the templars control the lyrium trade. Getting enough to not suffer through withdraws requires a pretty hefty amount of gold." He seemed to laugh a little at this thought before he stopped walking a little. "Odds are I'll go mad in a few months time and even then thats if I'm lucky." He shook his head at that. He was hardly as calm as he was acting to be. That was probably easy to tell by how he seemed to fidget and pace.

Moving back to where she was still standing he placed a hand on her head before ruffling her hair a little. "You make for a poor lire you know that? Of all the things you could say and you say you want to go to the circle.. they'd kill you on sight in Kirkwall."