"Trust me, I know. Chief's had us take a mouthful of that before heading into a few different places. The boys might have finished it off since we got here though."

He shakes his head and glares off at one of the houses when it finally looms into view. It's little more than a smudge among other, differently colored smudges. "Soon as I open my mouth I'd be pegged as 'vint. Not much better of a situation. I can talk to people more than you probably can here, but that'll only get us so far when nobody will trust us to begin with."