Sua watched the stranger from the corner of her eye while pretending to stare at the table edge, her fingers gripping the wood until her knuckles hurt but she didn't care because the pain kept her focused, kept her from doing something stupid like trusting this guy just because he walked in with a nice voice and a clean shirt
'Jin is so naive,' she thought, jaw tightening while her brother kept thanking the man for the hundredth time, 'he always does this, finds someone who looks strong and immediately starts hoping they'll save us'
She had seen it before, the last hunter Jin trusted took their emergency food money and never came back, the one before that promised medicine and delivered nothing, and now this Shu guy shows up looking like he stepped out of a different world, all healthy and confident, and Jin was already folding like wet paper
