"They were, in fact. I should've realized the villagers would be just as ignorant and superstitious as they were." At least with them, he'd been able to terrify them into behaving themselves.

"It was a full day of getting dragged through the forest and eating squirrels. I'm almost missing the experience now." Squirrel blood was awful, though. Like someone made a batch of absinthe in a rotting log.

"Am I to assume you were one of our rescuers?" It seemed like the sort of thing Marcos would get up to.