Elena nods then leans back into the shadows provided by a nearby supporting pillar. A minute later, she leans back in to the others, wearing the face of a tired older man. Sagging skin, missing and yellowed teeth, and the scars of poorly healed childhood diseases mark him as one of the homeless residents of the Barrens. The right eye is now brown and the left is the milky white of a man partially blind. Grease streaked and poorly kept hair round out the transformation.
Elena looks around and shaking hands fumble with the pack of cigars. Completely unable to work the old-fashioned lighter, the man looks at Kildare and, in an old and wheezy voice, says, "How about a little help here, mister?"