A Tale of Feeding Off Others —I Want to Live.—.Towards the end of winter, Kino comes across three starving traders who are trapped in their truck which is bogged in the snow. She offers to hunt food for them until they recover, killing and cooking rabbits although she has misgivings about valuing the lives of the men over those of the rabbits. As the snow begins to thaw, Kino uses Hermes to help extract their truck. However, the traders draw guns on her, explaining that they are actually human traffickers and she would be of value to them. When they are distracted by falling snow, Kino manages to attack and kill two of them before executing the third. Inside their truck, she finds the remains of the human cargo that they ate to stay alive through the winter. While riding away, Hermes asks Kino if she would make the same choice again.