When she talks to him again, Cade looks at her uncertainly. Has she really just been sitting here watching him shovel horse shit this entire time? Why did she want to sit here in the first place? Does she like the smell of horse shit?

"...that's.... it's fine," he says haltingly. Ale is completely out of the question, of course. Even if he drank it normally, he doubts he'd be allowed to now.