The ring of teleportation–a tool that helped the hero's party move easily throughout their known world. Without it, traveling would be a pain, but what would be worse was losing it to an enemy. Nothing of the kind had been made by anyone else yet, at least nobody that the party knew, not even the king's men from a while ago, as they clearly were trying to make their journey back on foot. Thus, before offering it to another person, Raven needed to know.
"You're going to be more loyal to me than you are to yourself," he said to the women, his hands still outstretched for them to take the rings.
Unsure why it meant so much to him, the women stared at him for a while until Jess eventually decided to ask.
"What does that mean, exactly? To be loyal to you…" The girl, just a year younger than Raven, was flustered by the thought, after all, to be loyal to a man that to more than herself, she knew what it meant, but she had to hear it from him first.