"Keep the light," he said, taking the batteries and handing the torch back to her. He just wanted the extra because he knew he'd be using them when he went to scout out the ruins and check the snares at night. The ones he was going to set once he found something thin enough and long enough to use. The rope they'd been given was just too thick for his taste. It could work in a pinch, but a lot of the smaller animals, rabbits and the like, they'd be able to pull their heads out before it tightened enough. Not all of them, but most of them.

As her new question, he held her eyes for a second, then let them drop as he shuffled the items in his pack around so it would sit better on his shoulder, "Ain't met many people yet. But if'n they don't know how to use it, then thems the ones that shouldn't have it. Why? You think you see someone you wouldn't want having one?"