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Beowulf had been dragged from his bed early so that he could shadow someone. Rather babysit them... He didn't really see why? They seemed to be the same-ish age that he was and he didn't need babysitting. Frowning as he stretched and dragged on some clothing. Scrubbing the sleep from his eyes and grabbing something to eat, Beowulf headed out of his home and to find his charge for the day. Coming to a crossroads he stopped and glanced around with still sleep deprived looking eyes.

"Now lets see, their guardian says they are always..." He stopped as he caught something hopping over a wall. Just perfect...

Pinching the bridge of his nose he headed off in the direction that his charge had gone. Hopping over the crumbling wall as Inej was a little ways a head of him. Beowulf didn't seen to be in any rush to really catch up, though it was on him that she had gotten out of the village in the first place.

"Will you get back here before we both get into trouble!" He called after the girl as he followed, eyes sweeping from side to side a bit. "Wouldn't want to take a corpse back to your guardian because I couldn't keep an eye on you... though that would be bad for me too. I would likely be tossed out and what not..." He muttered this last bit to himself before picking up the pace a bit.

Beowulf near trips over his own feet as he stumbled over a root that he hadn't seen. Cursing beneath his breath, he stops and looks around. Running a hand through his short hair with a sigh. Why did he have to be the one to watch this kid? Was his life filled with enough excitement as it was?

"Now where did she go?" he muttered now looking around and not seeing where inej had gone. "Great, now I am the one that is to get into trouble."

Pressing forward he looked around, not really seeing the hybrid behind one of the larger trees. In fact he had walked straight past her spot and stopped, groaning again wishing that he could just go back to his reading. While the books weren't really going anywhere, neither was he for that matter...

Beowulf ran a hand through his hair as he turned towards the voice. Jumping slightly as he did, not really paying much attention to where his charge had gone. Staring at this youth, one that was probably no older than himself.

"I was put in charge of your safety. Something, anything happens I will be in trouble." he explained, "Then I am sure you would probably getting a talking to for wandering. Should we just go back?"

Beowulf half turned as if to head back towards the area that they lived in. He half glanced also at Ijen expecting the her to follow him.

"Or was there something that you were looking for out here?"

The kid had looked away from him when he had mentioned that he had been put in charge of her safety. Frowning slightly he looked away, running a hand through still messy short hair. Really he had just rolled out of bed that morning and sent off to watch someone else's kid. Groaning slightly he turned back to Inej,

"Looking around?" he asked quietly, again looking around. "I suppose we could look around, mind we stay close to the town?"

It seemed like a simple thing? Perhaps if they remained within sight of the town they should be fine? Then again, there were probably other rules that forbade this girl to leave the town and its walls. In all Beowulf hoped that this would be a reasonable offer.

"Oh yea, name's Beowulf." offered a hand in greeting, though was unsure how well this kid would accept it.

"So long as we stay close to the town. You never know what might be lurking out here." Beowulf said dropping his hand back to his side. "The dangers I have read about can be sneaky."

He wasn't all too sure how else to mention it. There were traps out here meant for beasts, earthlings and well just about everyone else. He didn't want to fall into any of these traps, Dretch, he had read about were nasty sounding things. Scruffing his own hair, he tried to dismiss the rough images form his head.

"Is there a reason you are out here?" he asked Inej as he turned to start heading down the outer edge of the wall surrounding home. "There doesn't seem to be too much out here besides trees, bugs and other flora and fauna."

Beowulf side glanced at Inej as she spoke of being curious about the outer world. The place beyond the walls of home. Really he hadn't even had much interest in leaving the safety of home. Perhaps it was time for he too to find something else to do with his life? Shaking his head and dragging a hand through his short hair he sighed.

"Reading a good book can give you a look of what is out there." He said though knew that no book could answer the real questions one might look for. "Truthfully, I have never had the ambition to leave the walls. Too many books to carry if I did." He chuckled thinking of the near library he would have to try and haul around with him.

He watched Inej as it seemed that she wanted to wander further away from the walls. Glancing around, there weren't that many faces watching. "If it helps we can widen the circle after the first round. So long as we know where home is and can return before the sun set." He paused feeling that this will be a bad idea. "I will accompany you further into the trees to explore the place."

He was so dead, but Beowulf was willing to compromise to keep everyone happy.

Beowulf glanced at the kid that he was watching over. While he wanted to just usher them back into the village and towards safer things. It seemed they had a real reason to being outside the walls. Shaking his head a little he looked around at the trees, keeping an eye out for anything that might cause problems.

"You can go a head, I will be behind you." He commented after being asked if he wanted to lead. Really he didn't, but he was willing to follow behind to make sure nothing snuck on up on them. "Besides, someone has to watch out behind us."

Beowulf gave a motion for Inej to continue on. He figured that the next time that he was outside the walls he would have to bring a map or something to make one... To at least help with his training anyways... "You have no intentions of telling me why you wanted to come out here to explore. Do you?" he asked after a bit, watching Inej carefully.