Despite her purposefully long strides, Raven evened them out. She knew she worked herself too hard. Staying up too late, not getting enough sleep, keeping her mind busy when it needed to rest so it could remain sharp — it's a lesson she'd been poor at learning on the ground with Finn at her back, and it was one she struggled with even now, with another boy at her back who cared very little as to whether or not she burned herself out.

It wasn't as though she didn't know where they were headed — she didn't, not really — but out of a desire to not be worried about her back. Jess might be a pain in the ass most of the time, but he was one of the very few familiar faces in the town.

She didn't quite trust him. But she didn't not trust him, either.

Falling into step beside him, she kept her gaze straight ahead when she shrugged her shoulders. "Because I'm otherwise a boring person?" She looked to him, lips quirked up slightly, brow arched. "It'd make reasoning why we're here easier. We're all criminals. It's been an excuse used before."