[ Crane takes in the quick glance, but doesn't think much of it. Hell, he is used to checking his own near obsessively from the need to know when night hits back in Harran.

No, the thing that catches him is more the kid's response. ]

Right... Just a kid who knows martial arts and practices in the creepy woods. Sure thing.

[ The deadpan shows how much of that is believed. ]

At any rate, if we have to fight our way out-- [ eventually ] --that's a use in itself.