Are you having trouble

At a pause for a red light, he looked at her. She was looking straight ahead, lost in thought, a slight furrow on her brow, her hands fidgeting. He glanced again in the rearview, and decided. 

"Are you having problems? Anything that you need help with?"

"No, I'm fine."

"Nobody's after you, or anything like that?"

This time she turned to look at him. "No, thanks, I'm fine."

"Okay." He accelerated away from the light, and added, "I'm just asking because someone shot an arrow at us. It's stuck in the back of the car."

Setting

The Age of Discovery. The pseudo-Europeans arrive in the pseudo-New World to discover deserted cities. A plague from previous contacts has killed off 90% of the indigenous population, but before that, there was a civilization here--a civilization with sociopathic elves as the nobles, and neanderthaloid goblins as the commoners. Tribes of untamed goblins are moving down from the north to occupy the lands now vacant; small, hidden groups of elves maneuver to regain power.