Things can happen. But that's why I brought this thing with me in the first place.

*She lifted her purse, heavy with her winnings and her journal, and tapped it against his chest, and not exactly lightly, but not too heavily either*

You're not a jerk. But you can't follow me around forever, Thash. I need to do things on my own sometimes. Don't you? Isn't there something more interesting you could be doing instead of following me round everywhere?