Edward sighs, but follows after the kid anyway, pulling his flintlock pistol from his holster and packing in some gunpowder and a bullet, just in case. The kid does have a point, they'll know more about the area if they venture further in. They'll even find out more about what they might be going up against here.

But he still can't get all those dead bodies out of his head. Something killed them all, or drove them to their doom. He won't let Levi share in their fate.

"Not unless you're alone and they're starving," Edward says now, catching up quickly to Levi, the barrel of his gun pointed toward the ground.