Beneath her, Carto had already silently opened up one of the other four casks by slowly jimmying off the deliberately-loose top hoop using a thin prybar, and Águila had begun to siphon vermouth from the barrel into her former hiding place using a black rubber hose. Ebonshield could barely make out the sound of the trickling liquor as Carto sneakily attacked the other container. Once their point of entry had been secured, only then would they move on their objective.