Well it is one of those scenes they tell me happened but I don't understand very well myself, contrary to popular myth about people and their characters neither of this insane duo are me in any form Eleanor is not a Mary Sue, neither is Fulk and that leaves me guessing at their motivations some of the time. If it were my choice I would leave that bit out - less trouble and less confusing but when I tried that the characters start yelling at me and the whole thing collapses into nonsense.

I assume she is asking now because he can't wiggle out of answering, it is also harder for him to lie because his friend will contradict him (maybe). As for why she is asking in the first place, well she thinks Fulk is would break his oath and happily watch her get battered (but if he stepped in to help she would be equally irritated because she still loses him...problem is she is seeing everything in black and white obvious, not thinking about other possibilities - doesn't have to be limited to just those two options) so she is a tad upset. She won't get rid of him because she doesn't want to lose him, she won't ask or listen to what he is trying to say because she thinks it is a goodbye speech and if he can't finish the speech then he can't leave (stupid logic), and she can't ignore the bit he has said already that sounds like he would break his oath. That leaves her (she thinks, there are many other options but she is rather uncreative at times ) with just one thing to do - annoy him She doesn't care about Cicely in the slightest, but asking about her makes Fulk rather uncomfortable and then they are equal. She will probably never mention this again.

EDIT: I am beginning to suspect these typos were caused by me typing with my eyes shut Half of this didn’t even make sense