"Nah." Vic makes a face and flaps a hand. "Though they could. My dam always told me don't go in human cities and she was right, as always. Sometimes it's okay, but one time in Bustardo I went and got a real nice breakfast and it was poisoned 'cause they wanted to steal some of my kidneys. Or all my kidneys. I didn't ask."

That... hadn't gone well, and it penetrates Vic's thick skull that there are more humans here and he's not part of a pirate crew who might see it as their duty to help him out and escape. Or a method of escape, for that matter. There's always running...