So it's a weapon, then. If it is to be a free-for-all among everyone who has been brought and summarily stranded here, then it stands to reason that some of them will end up placed above others. Grace holds onto her own trust like it's a precious commodity and nobody, least of all this stranger, has proven yet that they deserve it from her. It is less that the gun once belonged to another person who has passed on that gives her pause, and more that there's no telling what this man intends to do with it once it belongs to him. Putting a weapon in a man's hand invariably means that he will use it.

"If you must take things from a corpse, there are ways to do so without force." A step closer, just one. "And he ought to be buried with his valuables, if he had any on him."