Sage felt his lips twitch slightly, a sprt of amused smile just lingering on his face as he shook his head. "I think I'm more likely to drive you nuts than she is," he noted, tossing a few more sticks onto the fire and then flopping backwards onto the ground with a sigh.

Sage hummed lightly and shrugged. "I piss everyone off," he noted. "I'm rather surprised you're still hanging around," he admitted. "Though I'm certainly not complaining about the company," he added. It got lonely out here without someone to talk to.

Sage just gave her a grin and shrug. "Well I'm sure more is coming," he mused. "You're stuck with me now," he added, sort of teasing the girl lightly.

At her next comment though, he nodded along. "It gets lonely pretty quickly if you let it," he noted. "I got used to it after a while, but it is nice to have someone to talk to."

Sage hummed softly and shrugged. Well, as long as she wasn't tired of him, he'd stick around. She wasn't so bad, after all. When she spoke up again, he offered her a small smile. "No offense, but you haven't been truly lonely. I've seen you with the guards and your brother. You have people you can talk to about things," he noted. "There's a line between liking being alone sometimes and liking never having anyone to help you or to ask questions to or just get things out of your head."

Sage grunted in response to her comments and nodded with a sort of shrug. "That's fair," he noted. "Personally, with as many guards as you have I'm not sure why they wanted to hire someone to defend you all the time," he admitted, wrinkling his nose slightly. "Seems like a waste of money. Then again, that probably doesn't matter when you have an entire castle."