Something passes between the two knights. Jubes doesn't stop holding the clothing on his wound. She looks at Julian, her eyes hard.

Julian sighs. "Miss, it's not that we don't want a commoner touching him. That's ridiculous." He takes off his helmet, dark hair falling into his face. "Miss, he could kill you and we won't put him through that."

Jubes looks at the girl. "Nor will we take you from your grandparents." She says softly. "We... when we became his knights, we swore an oath. To not let him kill, except in self-defense."