Leave it isn't an option. Leave it just invites someone else to take it, or for rats to steal it when you're not looking. Leave it only works if you have something to put your food in that no one else is going to open up. Still tense, Ezra shakes his head stubbornly.

"I don't want to," he argues, unwilling to budge. "You can't make me!"

Well, maybe he could, if Garth'zel got his hands on him, but Ezra's not going to let it come to that.