You rode on the back of Joel's horse. He was taking you on patrol, mainly a training exercise before the actual patrol tomorrow. He told you about traps, trails, scavengers and how not to get lost.

"Why did you request patrol? Why even sign up?"

Joel kept the horse going slow.

"I would've thought someone like you would rather take a job at the school or I don't know, the kitchen."

He usually didn't ask or poke on people's lives when training. But you were rather new to town. He wanted to know why the interest in patrol.