The point of this walk was to stretch their legs and clear their heads, but it seems that this was going down a completely different direction.

At feeling Pel lean away from him to hold herself up against the wall, Sam panics just a bit, worried that she's going to collapse or something. "Whoa, hey..." He knows close to nothing about any of the Ashara, but for Pel to react like this then something must have happened, though bringing it up probably would have this worse. And considering other interactions he's pretty sure a solid 'not your business' or something 'shem' related would come up.

"Hey... hey, it's going to be alright. Merrick's pretty tough." That was for sure. "And he'll be with others in the Inquisition... we can be there to watch him for you."