Jess had already broken the canyon into grids with a plan to search each of them. The maps arranged on the inn's ground floor were built on a similar system, and it was a perfectly fine one in and of itself, but Jess had been taught to rely on himself. For that reason, he had his own internal map he intended to follow, tweaked slightly to suit him and what he suspected of their captors' surveillance habits.

With his route held in his mind's eye, he arrowed in the direction of the river where they could then follow it to the southeast. The southeastern quadrant was still one he wanted to comb more thoroughly. "If you count this, it's my first time," he said, watching her walk backward alongside him. If her heel caught on a rock like that, he wasn't going to feel bad if she fell.

"Have you been to prison?" Temperament aside, he didn't completely buy her as a hardened inmate.