Don't mind him, just here checking out a bush, mentally trying to figure out if he can use it for some medicinal purpose. He's wary, of course; he'll always be, in a new place like this that he can't immediately assess. He's got his hand within free reach of his gun, fingers limber from training with it, but he won't notice Otoha until some sort of noise is made.

--If he got stuck with a bunch of brutish murderers, wouldn't that be a pain? They're not as easy to manipulate as the heroic types are.