Tara closes her light blue eyes as she weighs Esme's words.  She also feels uncomfortable about stealing from innocent farmers.  However, she thinks Esme's prediction that they could trade chores for food to be perhaps overly optimistic.  After all, they are fugitives, recently captives.<br/><br/>"Well, if you want to try to negotiate with them, maybe we could send one of us to talk and the other hangs back to provide cover, just in case?" Tara suggests.  "Or maybe it would be better to just avoid the farm all together and hope we can find food in the wild?"