[He slows down, thinking that she's incapable of keeping up rather than that she's deliberately keeping behind him. He wouldn't understand that level of wariness, especially not when keeping close to him and potentially lessening her exposure to the elements even slightly could mean the difference between life and death.]

I'm from Amestris, originally a little place in the mountains called Resembool, but... I guess I won't be surprised if you don't know it, nobody here seems to have. What about you? Does it ever snow like this where you're from?