[ when eddie first arrived in the fog, a shift in julie's attitude like that would have set him on edge - but he's been here for a while now, and he's spent enough one on one time with julie that he's not so easily unsettled by her. definitely not affected by the threats she used to spit at him, which have become notably less frequent.

he does feel like maybe he's touched a nerve though, watching the way she goes kind of static for a moment when he subtly brings attention to the fact that she came out here without her mask. eddie's pretty sure he's never seen her anywhere without it on her in some capacity. even that one time, when he stumbled into the lodge looking for a quiet place to lose his shit for a minute, she came out with it on, like she was ready.

it's just - interesting, is all.

eddie turns his head to look at her, leans a little to bump his shoulder against hers. ]

What, you don't think I could convince it to like me? [ it worked for julie, who's to say he couldn't sway the dredge, too. not that he'd want to, because that sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen, but still. ] In a, uh... non-cannibalistic kind of way. Do you think it counts as cannibalism if it's made up of like - a bunch of human parts?

[ a beat. ]

And a horse? [ he's unsure about the horse. ]