"I try not to gamble," says the man who spent at least one entire location playing card games for random, useless knick-knacks and other people's pants. Although maybe that all is why he doesn't gamble because he certainly must have been cheating. However, that's another argument for another time.

Though when Lambert steps in closer, no amount of stepping back and away from the witcher will stop him from picking up trace amounts of two undoubtedly familiar scents: snow and, of course, pine trees.

In any case, Childermass gives the other man a nasty look and say, "And I don't see why that should matter, either," before turning on a heel to leave for one of the adjoining gardens. He's said what he's had to, what more is there? So he can still turn into a crow. He's not the only one who kept a skill or two, here or there, across the carnival. It's hardly unique.